:27:02
And that unless some constitutional
reformation be brought about...
:27:07
...we would as well go back to our
homes and our farms as pursue this...
:27:12
...mockery of a government
one more day.
:27:15
ln short, Mr. Pym, you"re asking me...
:27:17
...to relinquish my sovereign
power over Parliament.
:27:21
lt does amount to that,
Your Majesty.
:27:23
l swear that l hold
this England and its laws...
:27:26
...dearer to my heart than any here.
:27:29
But gentlemen, if you were to reduce
me to a figurehead, a puppet king...
:27:33
...manipulated by Parliament,
how then would l serve my country?
:27:37
What manner of king would l be?
:27:41
l am persuaded, Your Majesty...
:27:43
...that England must move forward to a
more enlightened form of government...
:27:47
...based upon a true
representation of a free people.
:27:51
Such an institution
is known as democracy, sir.
:27:56
-Democracy, Mr...?
-Cromwell, sir.
:28:01
Democracy, Mr. Cromwell,
was a Greek drollery...
:28:05
...based on the foolish notion that
there are extraordinary possibilities...
:28:09
...in very ordinary people.
:28:12
lt is the ordinary people who would
most readily lay down their lives...
:28:16
...in defence of your realm.
:28:18
lt is simply that being ordinary...
:28:22
...they would prefer
to be asked and not told.
:28:27
You know, as l do, that the Scots rebels
are invading this land and not an...
:28:32
...English sword is raised against them.
l beg you, therefore, let us bury...
:28:36
...our differences in defence
of both our church and kingdom.
:28:40
The Scots invade our land and
all is urgency and alarm.
:28:47
ln the past 1 2 months our lrish
colonists have been slaughtered...
:28:51
...our churches desecrated,
our clergy persecuted.
:28:55
The Crown has been reluctant...
:28:57
...to defend our church and kingdom
over there, sir.