1. 5.5 Parliament Limits the English Monarchy

2. Senate House of Representatives Parliament
First, you need to understand how Parliament works… It’s a little like our Congress…
Congress
2 houses = bicameral
Senate House of Representatives
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Democrats Republicans
Democrats Republicans
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories

3. House of Lords House of Commons
Here’s how it looks with the English monarch added in…
Monarch
King or Queen
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories

4. House of Lords House of Commons
Here’s how it looked under Charles I…
DISSOLVED
Monarch
King Charles I
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
NO!!!
Give me money!!!
Fine! Then you’re not allowed to meet anymore, and you can’t make any new laws
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories

5. Charles I needed money… again… So he called Parliament back into session.
They agreed to give him money, but only if he followed these four rules:
Petition of Right
He couldn’t put people in prison without a good reason.
He couldn’t make new taxes without Parliament’s consent.
He couldn’t force people to take soldiers into their homes.
He couldn’t have martial law (army patrolling streets) in peacetime.
Charles I signed it… Then he ignored it…

6. Oh dear… The Presbyterian Scots are invading…
DISSOLVED
Monarch
King Charles I
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Seriously?! You agreed to the Petition of Right, and then you ignored it!
Actually… I really do need your money now, otherwise we’ll be invaded…
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories

7. OH NO YOU DIDN’T!!!! Things got heated… Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
OH NO YOU DIDN’T!!!!
Psst! Let’s get him!
Monarch
King Charles I
Thanks for the money! Aaaand now I’m going to make laws to prevent you from being powerful again! BUWAHAHAHA!!!!
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Okay! We never liked him anyway!
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”

8. Oliver Cromwell turns the tide of the war…
Parliament & the Puritans win,
and Charles I is beheaded.
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Monarch
King Charles I
Parliament
Puritans (“Roundheads”)
Oliver Cromwell
The King
The Royalists / Cavaliers
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”

9. Oliver Cromwell took over… Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
abolished the monarchy…
Monarch
nobody…
…and the House of Lords…
…and the rest of
Parliament…
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”
…and formed a military dictatorship, enforcing his rules with
the army by his side, and the Puritans imposing their morality
on all English citizens.
He crushed an Irish rebellion. Hundreds of thousands died.

10. The Restoration Luckily, he died. Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
A new Parliament was formed.
Monarch
Charles II
They chose Charles II
to be their new King.
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”
The Restoration

11. The Restoration Charles II was pretty awesome. Parliament Monarch
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Monarch
Charles II
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
I’ll never put people in prison unless they’re convicted of a crime by an impartial judge!
That’s called habeas corpus!
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”
The Restoration

12. House of Lords House of Commons Monarch
Unfortunately, he died.
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Monarch
Charles II
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”

13. His brother James II became king,
because Charles II didn’t have any legitimate children.
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Monarch
James II
He was CATHOLIC!!!
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”
England was Protestant… So they were NOT happy…

14. He put Catholics in positions of power.
DISSOLVED
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Parliament protested…
Monarch
James I
…so he dissolved them.
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”

15. Psst! Let’s get rid of him! Parliament
He had a son… England envisioned a long line of Catholic kings… and they were terrified.
DISSOLVED
Psst! Let’s get rid of him!
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Monarch
James I
Good idea!!
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”

16. Old members of Parliament conspired to overthrow the King.
They enlisted the help of his daughter, Mary, who was Protestant. She was married to another Protestant, William of Orange, King of the Netherlands.
DISSOLVED
Fab!
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Monarch
James I
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
I never liked my dad and his silly Catholicism…
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”
We’ll help!

17. William and Mary marched on London with their Dutch army…
DISSOLVED
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Monarch
James I
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”

18. The Glorious Revolution …and James II ran away. Parliament Monarch
DISSOLVED
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
Monarch
King William and Queen Mary
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
The
Glorious
Revolution
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”

19. William and Mary established a constitutional monarchy.
DISSOLVED
Parliament
2 houses = bicameral
House of Lords House of Commons
*nobles *regular people
*inherit *elected
They brought back Parliament...
and signed the Bill of Rights.
Constitutional Monarchs
King William and Queen Mary
Whigs Tories
Whigs Tories
Puritans
Ultra-Religious and Uber-Pure Protestants
a.k.a. “Roundheads”