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In 1639 King Charles I of England raised an army to fight an invasion from Scotland, and summoned a parliament to collect the money to pay for it. Parliament refused, and nine years later, Charles was executed and the monarchy was overthrown. In the times when there were no standing armies, princes encountered constant difficulties in raising money for defence, and disputes over the control of military spending stimulated the development of parliamentary government.
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© 1987 Hugh Miall
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Miall, H. (1987). Financial Control. In: Nuclear Weapons: Who’s in Charge?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18679-2_9
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