It is generally believed that Charles I was a feudal autocratic monarch, and his death must be the general trend and historical progress, but is this really the case? The author of this paper believes that it is not advisable to solve the problem at least by killing. In this sense, I'm afraid that Charles I was sent to the guillotine is a retrogression of history.

1649 65438+1October 30 (368 years ago), Charles I was guillotined as a loser of the civil war and executed in the square in front of Whitehall, London. Charles I was also the only king of England to be executed. Charles I is a loser, not a public enemy, because he is really not a public enemy, but only a public enemy of the Congress and the Republican Party. Because of this, Charles I was executed instead of imprisoned.

As we all know, Britain has always had a tradition of parliamentary system, that is, Britain has always been a feudal system, equivalent to the Zhou Dynasty in China, rather than a monarchy. The British Parliament can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon meetings. Therefore, the king does not mean that, like China, the king's power is restricted by local nobles. With the development of the system, this witenagemot gradually developed into a command meeting, which was mainly composed of advisory groups invited by the king and some big landlords, big noble. In order to assist the king in handling the case, this kind of command meeting gradually evolved into a "throne court", that is, a big meeting composed of representatives of various cities, the king and his command meeting staff.

Later, in order to restrict the king's rights, 12 15 In June, King John of Anjou held talks with 25 representatives of the nobility and signed the famous Magna Carta of Freedom. These two articles show that the rights of subjects are independent and not given by the king, so the king cannot deprive them. In the end, Britain returned to the era of monarchy, not a republic, which has continued to this day. British constitutional monarchy, as an advanced political system, has left a great influence on the world. Later, countries that implemented constitutional monarchy all learned from Britain. And Britain has also avoided slipping into the abyss of killing and solving problems. From this perspective, Charles I was pushed to the guillotine, which may be a retrogression in history.