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The XVIII century (Social context (Coffe houses were built and people…

- - - - Rousseau claimed how people were too busy to work and trying to have a good social position that they didn't have time to care about faith and spirituality
      - Bentham thought that what could be useful was morally corrected and that this could be calculated with scientific methods. There was the need to consider the goals of a comunity, so that, once they would have been reached every single person who belonged to it would have be happy
- - - - The population increased and the request of goods was higher that before
- - - - Developing of skills and method to obtain intellectual and practical knowledge. The skill's use must be Efficient and Effective
- - - - In the country there was a great production of wool and many mines of coal and iron
      - Mechanization helped to increase the productions of every industrial sector
      - Colonies were a great resources thanks to the Triangular Trade. This trade granted slaves who worked for the colonies and new kinds of plants and food
    - - Introduction of the Prime Minister. The minister that leaded the Parliament's discussions without the king in the cabinet
        
        The first Prime Minister was Robert Walpole (for 20 years). He solved the South Sea Bubble crisis bringing back public confidence. He also kept the peace with Europe.
      - There weren't wars inside of the country expecially thanks to the Whig party's stability
      - Costitutional morachy after the Glorious Revolution which reduced the king's power in favour of the Parliament
        
        The Parliament was less representative since there were 513 members for England which had more than 5 millions inhabitants. This brought land owners of the country to have the power of easily control the elections. The vote wasn't even secret.