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Republican Government in England: 1649—after Charles I was beheaded, After Charles I’s beheading in 1649, England turned to a Republican Government. This was a government system, usually referred to as the //commonwealth//, in which legislative power was placed in the surviving members of Parliament and executive power was lodged in a council of state. But, this did not succeed as a true republican government because power soon fell into the hands of the army that defeated royal forces. That army power then fell to the army’s leader, Oliver Cromwell, who turned his power into a military dictatorship. McKay, John P, etc al. __A History of Western Societies.__ Boston, Massachutes. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003
 * 13: Evolution in political elites, political parties, ideologies, and other forms of mass politics.