Constitutionalism Flashcards
Puritans towns people middle class business men
Roundheads
Aristocrats nobles and church officials. Remained loyal to king
Cavaliers
Roundheads favored a parliamentary monarch governed by
Presbyters or elders
Led Roundheads to defeat cavaliers
Oliver Cromwell
Army of zealous Protestants
New model army
Charles I executed on_____ by _________
January 1649
Cromwell and his supporters
Abolished monarchy and house if lords
The commonwealth
Took title “lord protector”
Cromwell
Barred Dutch ships from carrying goods between other countries and England
Navigation acts
Advocated a more egalitarian society with nearly universal manhood suffrage, written constitution guaranteeing equal rights
Levelers
Restored monarchy the Church of England and parliament
The restoration under Charles II
Deeply suspicious of Catholics excluded James from throne
The Whigs
Felt a strong loyalty to monarchy and supported James I to throne
Tories
First political parties in English speaking world
Whigs and Tories
James first daughter Mary marries
William house if orange
Parliament required William and Mary I accept
Bill of rights
English rejected theory of
Divine right king
The glorious revolution placed clear limitations of
The power of the English monarchy
Leviathan, published in 1651
Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes states humans are naturally
Self centered and prone to evil
Hobbes supported _________ rulers
Absolute
Thomas Hobbes “without government life would be
Intolerable and civilization impossible
Published second treatise of government
John Locke
Locke viewed humans as
Creatures of goodwill and reason
Locke formulated the theory of
Natural law
“Natural law” states
Life liberty property
