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James himself ~as in obvious sympathy with this idea, as is evident from the advice to his son Henry in the Basilikon Doron. 22 The advantages, then, in hereditary succession were continuity and order, and the opportunity for the next in line to be secure in his right and well prepared for the responsibilities of his future estate. A commitment to the principle of hereditary succession still left open the question of what the applicable rules of heredity were to be. On only one of these rules, that of primogeniture, did there appear to be universal agreement.

Because God was behind every human action, it was necessary to assert his authority for every route to the throne. 30 English law, however, especially the law of inheritance, was likely to be a more reliable guide to the settlement of the crown. Craig, who believed that any interference with the right of succession was a 'wrong not to be suffered in private families, to debar children from succeeding to their ancestors, and disinherit them,' asked how then 'can this be done ... ,3! For Craig a principal concern was the certainty of succession to private estates as well as to the 32 The Right to be King crown.

41 But Elizabeth did not settle on any of the other contenders; and the Council's proclamation of James as king, following as it did almost immediately upon Elizabeth's death, demonstrated a command of events at a time when it was most needed. George Lawson, a seventeenth-century observer, looking back on the occasion from a remove of nearly sixty years, applauded the Council's political wisdom even though he questioned its constitutional judgement. Lawson thought it questionable whether in an hereditary monarchy Elizabeth could have had the right to nominate, or the Council the right to proclaim; but like many of Elizabeth's contemporaries he was impressed by the need for decisive action.

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