Commonwealth and Glorious Revolution

Question 1

What was the Commonwealth?

Answer 1

the first bourgeoise government with a bourgeoise free will “kingdom of christ….”

Question 2

Why was a complete free bourgeoise free will not possible?

Answer 2

would result in chaos

Question 3

lex naturalis

Answer 3

freedom, natural right

Question 4

homo homini lupus

Answer 4

society: everybody for himself

Question 5

bellum omnia contra omnes

Answer 5

society: everybody against everybody

Question 6

Why do people live in a society?

Answer 6

gain honour or profit

Question 7

What is needed for a civilized society?

Answer 7

lex civilis

authorization of majority to have a sovereign

Question 8

Rump Parliament

Answer 8

1650, Independents

Question 9

What was passed in the new Parliament of 1653?

Answer 9

• property clause: men with property of over 200 pounds can vote MP’s
• Lord Protector (hereditary)
• Committee for the Propagadition of the Gospel
• Presbytarian state church

Question 10

What were the consequences of the term Lord Protector?

Answer 10

notion of puritan equality gone

Question 11

What does the Committee for the Propagadition of the Gospel signify?

Answer 11

the close tie of state and church

Question 12

What does a Presbytarian state church imply?

Answer 12

a puritan clergy, and censorship of all printing

Question 13

The Commonwealth is a ….

Answer 13

puritan state monopoly, a dictatorship in terms of NMA, religion, and freedom of speech

Question 14

What were the signs of the disintegrating Commonwealth?

Answer 14

1658 Richard

1658.60 famine (economy disintegrating)

Question 15

What was the consequence of the disintegration?

Answer 15

1660 a delegation was send to France to bring back Charles II

Question 16

What was the compromise with Charles II? (his demands)

Answer 16

Land, Political, Religious Settlement

Question 17

Land Settlement of Charles II meaning and consequences

Answer 17

land shall be given back to the royalists resulting in the royalists’ gaining political influence

Question 18

Political Settlement of Charles II meaning

Answer 18

House of Lords restored

1661 Cavalier Parliament

Question 19

What was so important about the Cavalier Parliament?

Answer 19

the first development of political parties

Question 20

Whigs

Answer 20

liberals (middle class)

Question 21

Tories

Answer 21

conservative (royalists)

Question 22

Religious Settlement of Charles II meaning and consequences

Answer 22

Anglican Church (no Puritanism, no radical sects) 
emigration of Puritans to the Americas exploded

Question 23

Who was Charles II?

Answer 23

a king influenced by French lifestyle

Question 24

Exclusion Crisis 
When? 
Charles & Tories 
Whigs
left Wing (people)

Answer 24

1670s
James (catholic son of Charles II)
Mary (James oldest daughter) married to William of Orange
Duke of Monmouth

Question 25

1681

Answer 25

Charles desolved Parliament

Question 26

When did James II come to the throne?

Answer 26

1685

Question 27

When and why was the hope of Mary rising to the throne crushed?

Answer 27

1687 birth of James' son

Question 28

5th November 1688

Answer 28

Glorious Revolution

Question 29

Process of Glorious Revolution

Answer 29

1. gelegation was send to NL to invite William and Mary to rule as dual monarchs in England 2. James fled to France

Question 30

What was so glorious about the Revoloution?

Answer 30

no blood shed

Question 31

What is the English Bill of Rights?

Answer 31

1689 | it describes the rights and duties of monarch and Parliament

Question 32

England is after the Bill of Rights...

Answer 32

a parliamentary monarchy

Question 33

What does "Crown in Parliament" mean?

Answer 33

Parliament had the power

Question 34

What is the English constitution made of?

Answer 34

Magna Charta 1215 Bill of right 1689 common law conventions

Question 35

Bill of Rights taxation

Answer 35

by Parliament | monarch gets salary

Question 36

Bill of Rights legislation

Answer 36

by Parliament except foreign affiars until 1730s then Cabinet

Question 37

What did develop after the Bill of Rights?

Answer 37

Cabinet System (apointed ministers) =/ Parliament

Question 38

Bill of Rights army

Answer 38

Crown: head of the army --> not allowed to declare war

Question 39

Bill of Rights Church

Answer 39

monarch is the head of the Anglican Church (no more Catholics allowed)