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89 matches to Parliament
Militia Ordinance. 1642. Parliament takes over Militia. English Civil War.
Model Parliaments. 1265, 1295. Convened by Montfort, Edward I. Models for British representative parliament.
Monopolies. 1597- Granted by English crown. Abolished by Parliament 1624, 39.
Montfort, Simon de. c1208-65. English leader of revolt vs Henry III. Model Parliament was first representative parliament. Defeated and captured at Evesham 1265. Barons War.
National Assembly. 1789-91. French legislature of Third Estate. 1946-. Lower house of French parliament. Rights of Man. Legislative Assembly.
National Covenant. 1638. Oath to maintain Scottish Presbyterianism against Charles I episcopacy. 1638-90. Presbyterians persecuted in Scotland. 1643-67 Solemn League allied with Parliament in Civil War. 1647-supported Charles. 1661 illegal.
New Model Army. 1645. English parliamentary army replaced private armies. Won Civil War.
Nineteen Propositions. 1642. Parliament’s demands, rejected by Charles I. Civil War.
O’Connell, Daniel. 1775-1847. Irish leader. Founded Catholic Association, 1823. Election to Parliament led to Catholic Emancipation Act, 1829.
Parliament. British Monarch, House of Lords and Commons. 1295 Model Parliament. 1688 Glorious Revolution. 1911 Parliament Act. Curia Regis. Name of legislatures of most former British colonies.
Parliament Act. 1911. House of Lords loses veto after opposing tax on wealthy. Commons term 5 yrs.
Peterloo Massacre. 1819. Peaceful Manchester demonstration for parliamentary reform suppressed by cavalry. 500 casualties. Ultra tories limit freedom of press, assembly.
Pobedonostev, Konstantin. 1827-1907. Russian. professor, tutor to Alexander III, Nicholas II. Pro-autocracy. “Parliaments are the great lie of our time.”
Poynings Laws. 1494. Irish Parliament Acts put English Laws in effect.
Pride’s Purge. 1648. Removal of 143 Presbyterian royalists from Parliament. Rump Parliament.
Prime Minister. =Premier. Head of parliamentary government under the head of state (monarch or president). Walpole (1721-42) considered first British Prime Minister. Richelieu 1624 France. Chancellor.
Pym, John. 1583-1643. English Puritan. Led Long Parliament. Civil War.
Reform Bills. England. 1832: Russell redistributes Parliamentary seats, enfranchises renters. 1867: Disraeli enfranchises workers in towns. 1884: Gladstone enfranchises agricultural workers. Representation of People Acts.
Rights, Bill of. 1689. Established power of British Parliament over taxes, laws, army. Protestant Succession. William and Mary.
Riksdag. 1435-1865. Swedish parliament.
Rothschild, Lionel de. 1808-79. First Jewish member of British Parliament 1858-74.
Roundhead. Derisory term applied to Parliamentarians during English Civil War.
Rump Parliament. 1648-60. After Pride’s Purge.
Sandys, Edwin. 1561-1629. English parliamentarian. His ideas helped overthrow Charles I.
Scots Confession. Knox’s Calvinist doctrine, adopted by Scottish parliament 1560.