Professor Brophy
History 102

English Constitutionalism (Development of Limited Monarchy)
 Introduction
-tradition of parliaments after 1066
-1215 Magna Carta
-parliaments national, not provincial
-voting rights dependent on property, not birth or status
-the ‘constitution’ and common law

II Tudors and Growth of Absolute Monarchy
-Henry VIII (1509-1547); Eng. Reformation
-Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
-Elizabethan Age: growth of national identity
-"rising" social groups: commerce and gentry
-parliament vs. court
-Anglicanism vs. dissenting protestantisms

III The English Revolution, 1640-1689: Royal Absolutism under the Stuarts
-James I (1603-1625) and divine right
-court and crown as sole governing bodies
-Sir Edward Coke's constitutional defense
-persecution of Puritanism
-Charles I (1625-1649)
-dissolution of parliament; illegal collection of taxes
-Petition of Right (1628)
-Archbishop Laud and Star Chamber

Civil War (1640-1660) and Interregnum (1649-1660)
-religious conformity, Scottish invasion, taxes
-Parliament's Grand Remonstrance (1641)
-civil war, parliament, Oliver Cromwell
-New Model Army: radical populist militancy
-January 1649: public execution of Charles I
-radical revolutionaries: Levellers & Diggers
-the gentry's fear of radicalism

The Restoration, 1660-1688
-restoration of Stuarts: Charles II (1660-85)
-why did the gentry restore the Stuarts?
-Charles II and Parliament
-James II (1685-88) and Parliament
-James’s restoration of royal prerogative
-the gentry’s wish for limited monarchy

The Glorious Revolution, 1688-89
-the conspiracy against James II
-the demand for a Protestant King
-William of Orange and Mary
-the "invasion" and "rescue" of England—the bloodless or glorious revolution
-reasons for success

English Constitutionalism in the Modern Era
-limited monarchy
-Parliament's rights: convening regularly, making laws, levying taxes
-habeas corpus and trial by jury
-parliament: oligarchy of propertied class
-a model for developing representative government in modern era