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Real0ne -> RE: Nearly all US Presidents are descendant of British & French Royal Families (3/12/2010 9:02:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
You've already been given the information you need RO, but here is a more clarified version
1) the Declaration Of Breda - issued by Charles Stuart in anticipation of his restoration as Charles II
by which upon the word of a king, we will be advised."
Red Herring
2) the Restoration Settlement 1660
History Learning Site > Stuart England > The Restoration Settlement
The Restoration Settlement led to Charles Stuart being proclaimed King Charles II of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland on May 8th, 1660. The new king landed at Dover on May 26th. For eleven years, there had been no monarchy but the Restoration Settlement brought back from exile the son of the beheaded Charles I..
Another red herring
3) Tenures Abolition Act 1660
More importantly, s 8 of the 1660 Act allowed the father of a child under 21 and not married at the time of his death to appoint by will or deed a guardian for his child in the event of the father’s death. The guardianship of a male child continued to the age of 21 even if the child subsequently married.
another red herring
4) Coronation Oath Act 1688
An Act for Establishing the Coronation Oath.Oath heretofore framed in doubtful Words. Whereas by the Law and Ancient Usage of this Realme the Kings and Queens thereof have taken a Solemne Oath upon the Evangelists at Their respective Coronations to maintaine the Statutes Laws and Customs of the said Realme and all the People and Inhabitants thereof in their Spirituall and Civill Rights and Properties But forasmuch as the Oath itselfe on such Occasion Administred hath heretofore beene framed in doubtfull Words and Expressions with relation to ancient Laws and Constitutions at this time unknowne To the end therefore that One Uniforme Oath may be in all Times to come taken by the Kings and Queens of this Realme and to Them respectively Adminstred at the times of Their and every of Their Coronation.
getting warmer but we dont forget that the king/queens statutized the their personal laws so what changed?
5) Bill Of Rights 1689
Bill of Rights 1689
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(1689) British law, one of the basic instruments of the British constitution. It incorporated the provisions of the Declaration of Rights, which William III and Mary II accepted upon taking the throne. Its main purpose was to declare illegal various practices of James II, such as the royal prerogative of dispensing with the law in certain cases. The result of a long struggle between the Stuart kings and the English people and Parliament, it made the monarchy clearly conditional on the will of Parliament and provided freedom from arbitrary government. It also dealt with the succession to the throne.
and here, a summary of the latter part of the period - which started in 1641 with the first English Civil War, from Wiki
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 is considered by some as being one of the most important events in the long evolution of the respective powers of Parliament and the Crown in England. With the passage of the Bill of Rights, it stamped out once and for all any possibility of a Catholic monarchy, and ended moves towards absolute monarchy in the British kingdoms by circumscribing the monarch's powers. These powers were greatly restricted; he or she could no longer suspend laws, levy taxes, make royal appointments, or maintain a standing army during peacetime without Parliament's permission — to this day the Army is known as the "British Army" not the "Royal Army" as it is, in some sense, Parliament's Army and not that of the King. (This is, however, a complex issue, as the Crown remained—and remains—the source of all executive authority in the British army, with legal implications for unlawful orders etc.[112]) Since 1689, government under a system of constitutional monarchy in England, and later the United Kingdom, has been uninterrupted. Since then, Parliament's power has steadily increased while the Crown's has steadily declined.
What you singularly fail to appreciate is the importance of this period from the 1640s through to the close of the 17th century, in changing the constitutional arrangements of the UK, most notably in disenfranchising the monarch of much of his/her power and setting the stage for this power to be further diminished in the centuries since, with Parliament taking it on. If you will observe this period of our history, you will also perhaps discern why and how the US came into being as a progression of the same movement in the century following. Also see "the Enlightenment".
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ok..most of what you posted are red herrings but the bill of rights actually really counts and it is really just an extension of the magna charta/ It does not dethrone the crown, restrict their property rights, but it does restrict their decrees to the approval of parliament.
Basically all it does is force (at least on paper), the monarchs to follow the law they "originally" created and limits them from whinsically denying their subjects say habeous corpus etc.
It did not take them to the point of a "figurehead".
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