Democracy In Great Britain

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Questions to answer
What is Democracy? What is a constitution?

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Definitions:
Democracy

( pl. -cies) a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives a state governed in such a way : a multiparty democracy. Constitution :noun a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed. 4/29/12 A written record to this

Birth of Parliament
Birth

of the English Parliament Nobody set out to create Parliament. It developed naturally out of the daily political needs of the English King and his government. Nor did it develop continuously over time, but went through short periods of rapid growth . Yet despite its unintentional and haphazard development, the modern British Parliament is one of the oldest continuous representative assemblies 4/29/12 in the world.

Birth of parliament
Assemblies 1

: 2 kind of people

King+Nobles 2 Representatives of Counties

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 The

development of Parliament took over one thousand years, from the Anglo-Saxon Witan to the reign of Elizabeth I

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1215: Magna Carta

Magna

Carta Ist step towards democracy in England Carta : a charter of liberty and political rights obtained from King John of England by his rebellious barons at Runnymede in 1215, which came to be seen as the seminal document of English constitutional practice. ORIGIN from medieval Latin, great charter.
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Henry VIII 1491-1547 and Parliament Tudor Dynasty

The

relations of Henry VIII with his parliament were unique. He took great interest in the progress of the parliament. Even though he kept the parliament under his full control, he called repeated sessions of the parliament to take major decisions. He himself never acted against the will of the Parliament.
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Civil war
The

Civil War : Over the space of 20 years England experienced civil war, regicide, a republic and military rule. At the heart of all these events was Parliament. How did the institution which had existed at the will of the King come to overthrow and execute him and then conduct a 10-year experiment in rule by the Commons alone, without King or House of Lords? And why by 1660 were most people ready and eager to go back to the old system?
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The Petition of right (1628)

Petition

of Right, 1628, is a statement of civil liberties sent by the English Parliament to Charles I. Refusal by Parliament to finance the king's unpopular foreign policy had caused his
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The Petition of Right, initiated by Sir Edward Coke, was based upon earlier statutes and charters and asserted four principles: no taxes may be levied without consent of Parliament; no subject may be imprisoned without cause shown (reaffirmation of the right of habeas corpus); no soldiers may be quartered upon the citizenry; martial law may not be used in time of peace. In return for his acceptance (June, 4/29/12 1628), Charles was granted subsidies.

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the petition was of importance as a safeguard of civil liberties, its spirit was soon violated by Charles, who continued to collect tonnage and poundage duties without Parliament's authorization and to prosecute citizens in an arbitrary manner.

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Oliver Cromwell (15991658) Lord Protector: 1648/1658 Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 3

September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known in England for his overthrow of the monarchy and temporarily turning England into a republican Commonwealth and for his rule as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Habeas Corpus (1679)

The

Habeas Corpus Act is an Act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of King Charles II by what became known as the Habeas Corpus Parliament to define and strengthen the ancient prerogative writ of habeas corpus, whereby persons unlawfully detained cannot be ordered to be prosecuted before a court of law.
It was one of the concessions the British 4/29/12 Monarch made in the Magna Carta and

The

Act is often wrongly described as the origin of the writ of habeas corpus, which had existed in England for at least three centuries before. The Act of 1679 followed an earlier act of 1640, which established that the command of the King or the Privy Council was no answer to a petition of habeas corpus. Further Habeas Corpus Acts were passed by the British Parliament in 1803, 1804, 1816 and 1862, but it is the Act of 1679 which is remembered as one of the most 4/29/12

The British Bill of Rights (1689)

The

Bill of Rights is an act of the Parliament of England, whose title is An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown. It is often called the English Bill of Rights.

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 The

English Bill of Rights grew out of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. During the revolution King James II abdicated and fled from England. He was succeeded by his daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange, a Dutch prince. Parliament proposed a Declaration of Rights and presented it to William and Mary on February 13, 1689. Only after they accepted the declaration did Parliament proclaim them king and queen of England. Parliament then added several clauses to the declaration and formally enacted the
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Act of settlement (1701)

The

Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was originally filed in 1700 and passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English throne on the Electress Sophia of Hanover (a granddaughter of James I) and her Protestant heirs. The act was later extended to Scotland, as a result of the Treaty of Union (Article II), enacted in the Acts of Union 1707 before it was ever needed.
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Along

with the Bill of Rights 1689, it remains today one of the main constitutional laws governing the succession to not only the throne of the United Kingdom, but, following British colonialism, the resultant doctrine of reception, and independence, also to those of the other Commonwealth realms, whether by willing deference to the act as a British statute or as a patriated part of the particular realm's constitution.
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