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>Long parliament elected in 1640
>After eight years with no elections because lolcivilwar close to half of the remaining MPs are either purged out by the military or resign in disgust
>Tiny fucking remnant body of hardliners who remain vote to execute the King after throwing out all established legal precedent and embarrassing themselves in a kangaroo court
>One of them ends up becoming a dictator anyway and they all just go along with it.
"muh magna carta" doesn't apply. You were never able to answer by what lawful authority Charles was being put on trial. He ran intellectual circles around all of them and died the undisputed debate club chad president and nothing you can say will change that.
I can sense it though, deep within you, the temptation to post your anti-intellectual trump card.
>MIGHT MAKES RIGHT MUFFUGHA.
Go on, I dare you. Post it. Post "vae victis" I fucking dare you.