HY 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Roundhead, Constitutionalism, Puritans
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The english context: elizabeth and the need for approval. Charles i and the english civil war: financial expedients, cavaliers and roundheads (puritans) Oliver cromwell: cromwell disperses parliament, the lord protector and the rule of the major generals, hobbes and the leviathan. Restoration and revolution: charles ii and general debauchery. The first bill of rights: parliament supreme: the act of settlement, the hanoverians and the ministerial government, locke and the treatise of civil government. Key terms: charles i, petition of right, oliver cromwell, thomas hobbes, leviathan. There"s a fee to be a part of it but if you don"t pay then there"s a punishment. This is his way of collecting money & not having to ask parliament. 1625 and leaves the thrown to his son charles i: charles i goes to parliament and needs money to fight scotland but, the church of england is primarily catholic. Parliament brings back up the petition of right.
