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Religious Toleration: Civil Liberty
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The Puritans made their appeal to the defense of the constitution and the rights of all English subjects, specifically to protect religious toleration. But the basic issue was the divine right theory of kingship. According to the Puritan argument, divine right destroyed any and all appeals to the law. It eroded property rights and threatened personal rights as well. Most Englishmen simply wanted to limit the king's prerogative to rule. Even in 1640, both Houses wanted to preserve the King's prerogative, restore Parliament's privileges and restore liberty to all English subjects.
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Liberty and concord in the United Provinces : religious toleration and the public in the eighteenth-century Netherlands / by Joris van Eijnatten. – Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003. – (Brill’s studies in intellectual history ; v. 111)
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Condé wanted to be seen as a leader of religious toleration and religious liberty. His main aim ... was to assert himself at court and on the monarchy and make himself the most influential person at court.
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