The act against dissolving the long parliament without its own consent Flashcards
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What did the army plot lead to?
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What was the act against dissolve in the long parliaments without its own consent?
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An act to prevent inconvenience, which may happen by the untimely adjourning, prolonging, or dissolving this present Parliament
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What did this act state?
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- ‘Credit cannot be obtained until … justice shall be duly executed upon delinquents, public grievances redressed, a firm peace between the two nations of England and Scotland conducted’
- ‘ this present Parliament now assembled shall not be dissolved unless it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose … and in like manner, that the House of Commons shall not, at any time or times, during this present Parliament, be adjourned, unless it be by themselves or by their own order’
