The development of British democratic institutions from Magna Carta to Queen Anne's reign
By Ginevra0000
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a charter demanding specific liberties -
a council made up of barons, clergy, knights and representatives of the towns; was the England's first Parliament
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stated that Henry VIII was declared "the Supreme Head of Church of England"
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prepared by the Archibishop of Canterbury, became compulsory with the Act of Uniformity -
Elizabeth consolid the reformation by re-introducing the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity
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stated that the king could not imprison without trial or impose taxes without the consent of the Commons; became the foundation of all later declarations of civil rights
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the king was forced to summon the so-called Short Parliament; in the same year was elected a new Parliament, the so-called Long Parliament. It reflected the change in wealth that had taken place in Tudor period with a shift from the medieval Church and the landed aristocracy to a rising middle class of small landowners, city merchants and the professions -
abolished the monarchy and declared a republic, the "Commonwealth"
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which giving a sort of monopoly of trade to British ships
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that excluded the dissenters from public offices
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which imposed the use of Book of Common Prayer
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the aims were join war against Holland and restore Britain to Catholicism
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which required all public employees to conform to the Church of England -
introduced more religious tolerance by granting freedom of workship to dissenting Protestants but excluded Catholics and Unitarians -
the Bill of Rights re-enacted freedoms that had been stated by Magna Carta and the Petition of Right, and it established that the king could levy taxes, raise an army and suspend laws only with parlamentary vonsent
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a Triennial Act asserted that Parliament should last for three years
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which excluded Catholics from the throne and declared that Anne and her heirs would succed William. -
was passed by which the kingdom of England and Scotland, was replaced by the United Kingdom of Great Britain with a single Parliament in Westminster
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was signed with France at the end of the War of the Spanish Succesion, in which England was involved against France
