Why do we obey laws? Who should rule and why?
Review: What is political legitimacy?
What is absolutism?
What is constitutionalism
Political Legitimacy
Louis XIV: rules France 1643-1715Versailles: under construction 1660-1688
How did life at Versailles reflect King Louis XIV's desire to be an absolute monarch?
What was absolutism in theory and in practice in France under Louis XIV?
Louis XIV, Versailles & Absolutism
What were the main issues in the struggle between king and Parliament in 17th century England? How were these struggled resolved?
English Civil War (1642-1651)
James I, Charles I and absolutismPetition of Right by Parliament (1628)Personal Rule by Charles I (1629-1640)Scottish Rebellion (1637-1640)Long Parliament (1640-1649)War between the King & Parliament (1642-1646)
Parliament wins & captures the kingPutney Debates (1647)Second round of fighting (1648-1649)Charles I tried and executed (1649)Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell (1649-1659)Monarchy restored under Charles II (1660)
English Civil War Timeline
(Almost) bloodless revolution James II starts asserting too
much powerDeposed by ParliamentParliament invites William
and Mary to be co-monarchs
Establishment of Constitutional Monarchy in EnglandParliament and the
monarchy share powerBill of Rights adopted
Glorious Revolution (1688)
“We neither live under the terror of despotic power nor are cast loose into the wildness of governing multitudes.”
- Archbishop of Canterbury at the coronation of William and Mary