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Government, instrument of.
The Instrument of Government was a constitution adopted by Cromwell and his council of officers when the Little Parliament dissolved itself in December, 1653, surrendering authority to Cromwell as Lord Protector.
It is therefore to be regarded as the constitutional basis or definition of the Protectorate; and under it the reformed Parliament met in September, 1654.
This assembly proceeded to settle the government on a Parliamentary basis, taking the Instrument Cromwell as Lord Protector.
It is therefore to be regarded as the constitutional basis or definition of the Protectorate; and under it the reformed Parliament met in September, 1654.
This assembly proceeded to settle the government on a Parliamentary basis, taking the Instrument as the groundwork of the new constitution, and carry ing it clause by clause.
The Instrument of Government holds therefore not only an important place in English political history, but in the general history of the development of the idea of a written constitution.
The following is its text:
The government of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging.
1. That the supreme legislative authority of the Commonwealth of England Scotland, an