J.P.Sommerville

Henry Parker, Philip Hunton, and Parliamentary power.

Suggested reading

Some contemporary views and documents:

S.R.Gardiner (ed). Constitutional documents of the Puritan Revolution 1625-1660,

Secondary sources

Arihiro Fukuda, Sovereignty and the sword : Harrington, Hobbes, and mixed government in the English civil wars, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Burgess, Glenn, The politics of the ancient constitution: an introduction to English political thought 1603-1642, Houndmills, Macmillan, 1992.
[Mostly background material.]

Greenberg, Janelle, The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution, CUP 2001
[The common law context.]

Jordan, W .K., Men of substance; a study of the thought of two English revolutionaries: Henry Parker and Henry Robinson, University of Chicago 1942.

Malcolm, Joyce, The Struggle for Sovereignty. Seventeenth-Century English Political Tracts, 2 vols., Indianapolis 1999.
[Excellent Liberty Fund collection; includes Parker's The Case of Shipmony briefly discoursed (1640) at vol. 1, 93-125]

Margaret Judson, The crisis of the constitution; an essay in constitutional and political thought in England, 1603-1645, New York 1949

Mendle, Michael,  Henry Parker and the English civil war : the political thought of the public’s privado, Cambridge CUP 1995.

Mendle, Michael, Dangerous positions. Mixed government, the estates of the realm, and the making of the Answer to the xix propositions, University of Alabama Press, 1985.

Mendle, Michael, "Parliamentary sovereignty:  a very English absolutism" in Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner (eds) Political discourse in early-modern Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Mendle, Michael, "The Great Council of Parliament and the First Ordinances: the Constitutional Theory of the Civil War," in Journal of British Studies 31(1992), 133-62.

Nenner, Howard, The Right to be King: the Succession to the Crown of England 1603-1715, North Carolina 1995
[Interesting discussion, only partly on the Civil War period.]

Pocock, J. G. A., The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law, second edition, CUP 1987
[Influential, clear, discussion of seventeenth-century English political thought, only partly on the Civil War period.]

Sanderson, John, "But the people’s creatures" : the philosophical basis of the English Civil War, Manchester University Press 1989.
[Good overview.]

Sommerville, J.P., Royalists and Patriots. Politics and Ideology in England 1603-1640, 1999,
[especially chapters 2-3; background material, with little directly on the Civil War.]

Vile, M. J. C., Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers, Liberty Fund, (also available in a printed edition Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1967) [only partially on the Civil War period, but discusses an important theme.]

Weston, Corinne C., "England: ancient constitution and common law," in J.H. Burns, ed., The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700, Cambridge 1991, 374-411.
[Good overview on English constitutional  thinking.]

Wootton, David, "From Rebellion to Revolution: The Crisis of the Winter of 1642/3 and the Origins of Civil War Radicalism," in English Historical Review 105(1990), 654-69
[Interesting thesis.]

Zagorin, Perez, A history of political thought in the English revolution, London 1954.
[Sensible old guide.]

Some items on the Bodin, Leveller and Hobbes lists are also relevant to this topic.