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Why did the Rump fail? (Politics in the army (Hard-line political…
Why did the Rump fail?
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Politics in the army
Hard-line political radicalism on Leveller lines was only an attitude really held by junior officers
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Suspicion of the army
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Conservative Rumpers had not forgotten the army radicalism in 1647-8 and knew that these ideals had not been eliminated
The more astute saw the army as a potential rival for political power - few Rumpers were supports of the army in these circumstances
Lack of electoral reform
New elections on the existing franchise would produce a large number of conservative MPs, against what Cromwell wanted
MPs plan in April to rush ahead with a bill that made no changes to the system and to appoint a committee of Rumpers to supervise elections and vet new MPs alienated the army
Cromwell's hopes of godly reformation and freedom to search for true, let alone legal and social reforms, would be quashed if this bill went ahead