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The Glorious Revolution
Revolutionary?
Divine right - challenged by committing country to protestant succession. Leads to the Tory BedPan myth
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THE BILL OF RIGHTS 1689
Lack of constitutional and ecclesiasticao reform e.g. Freedom of speech protected within parliament is maintained and does not address the personal powers of Monarchy in the form of Foreign policy.
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King power was limited - Fiscal sense and could no longe suspend the law or release individuals from its effects
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Act of Settlement 1701 - revolutionary in form of succession. Included laws such as English Monarch of foriegn descent should not take England into War for defence of lands not belonging to England
William's well-known dislike of constitutional constraints - and the perceived need to re-establish orderly government quickly meant most politicians rejected the idea of extensive reform. Still had the right to choose ministers. William head of the Church of England
Declaration fo rights - many of the demands limiting royal power made in the declaration of rights of 1689 were not implemented e.g. Monarch still had control over foreign policy.
Financial Revolution
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Changes in Government
Borrow - Crown could borrow money on a never before seen scale - enabled William and Anne to become a major European power alongside France.
Consitutioanl Concessions - Kings debt became National Debt. Loans underwritten meaning regular parliaments became neccessary.
By 1698 National Debt stood at £16.7 million and repayments took up around 30% of Crown's revenue pa
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Reasons for
GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
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Revenue - all parts of political spectrum in Feb warned against granting either large permanent revenue or permanent revenue at all - refused to grant William more than £1,200,000 as the total for the Crown's ordinary expenditure.
NINE YEARS WAR
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Alternative need for financing - Parliamentary grants under cirticism from Junto Whigs as. not being used in English Interest.
War explains why William accepted curtails on prerogative - all measures signed off with a desperate need for further subsidies. Average expediture for Nine Years War - over £5.4 milliona nd average tax revenue was £3.6 million.
Bank of England - William recruited 68,000 men as a result of the £2.8 million raised borrowing through the bank.
WHIG IDEALS
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Whigs believed future lay in manufacturing rather than an agarian society - wealth is infinite as created by Human endavour.
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Toleration Act of 1689
Changed
Allowed freedom of worship for non-conformists - who pleged oaths to Allegiance and Supremacy and rejected Transubstantiation
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