
“Roundhead”, on the other hand, was the pejorative and contemptuous term the Cavaliers gave to the plainly clothed and hair cropped Puritan, who backed Parliament against the undivided powers of the Catholic-minded king. Their efforts, as we all know, led to the beheading of Charles, and eventually to the adoption of a mixed constitution and a more limited monarchy. For better or worse, in the titanic struggle between King and Country, the country prevailed, and Sir Robert Filmer's defense of one-man rule in The Natural Power of Kings, forever received its death knell.
And so I like the phrase. Roundhead values means we celebrate freedom and true progress, and recognize the inate dignity of every human being. Cavalier tastes implies that we continue to hold reverence for our traditions, heritage and institutions, while showing our disdain for those who attack these. In the old meaning of the word it also implies that we reserve our contempt for the tasteless: the ill mannered, insufferable gasbags of this world, and take on those who offend our sense of self-respect and personal dignity. There is no contradiction here. We hold that society, for all its egalitarian and proletariat rhetoric, could still use a little class.
... A brillant article, but intempestive and optimistic in a feble sense; from a legitimate historic view, a true connection between Court and Country principles is a product of augustan age ( c. XVIII): whig and tory thinkers... Rounhead is republicanism and dictatorship, meanwhile "Cavalier" is forever loyalty to King and Contry. In Spain, in any case, there is an analogy: royalist as Jovellanos and supporters of Gaditanic Constitution. Is a historic fact, no poetry.
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