User:Atcovi/Rules of Law


 * Rules of Law
 * Constitutionalism - "a compound of ideas, attitudes, and patterns of behavior elaborating the principle that the authority of government derives from and is limited by a body of fundamental law". Everyone in a land in which the laws are bound by a constitution are obliged to follow them (no one is above the law).
 * Other rulers ruled by decree ("because I say so"), such as Mother Teresa. A ruler, in a constitution, must make rules in accordance with its constitution vs. in a decree, the ruler can make laws from thin air.

English Constitutional Monarchy

 * Magna Carta, 1215
 * Model Parliament, 1295
 * King Edward I brought military leaders/nobility representing as Parliament to ask for the permission to change taxation. Established the principle of parliamentary: "power of the purse".
 * Elizabethan "Bargain"
 * Parliament is able to tax and can debate and change bills. Can go to war whenever need be, but this differs from American politics.

James I, 1603-1625
He wanted absolute power, quickly pushed out a Parliament grown (under the Tudors Act) to be under the guise of the Parliaments and monarchs to rule together. Doesn't like the Parliament or Puritans, ended up making up a lot of the House of Commons population.
 * Scottish king

English Catholics wanted to kill James I: Blew up Commons of Houses in opening of the Parliament. Gunpowder Plot, 1605.

King James Bible, 1611
 * Problems he faced
 * Large royal debt
 * Not English, didn't understand English customs
 * Divine Right of Kings
 * Wanted religious uniformity (wanted all to be Anglicans)
 * Anti Puritan sympathies
 * Clashed with Parliament daily: raised money without their consent, sold titles and monopolies to highest bidders, "Over Foreign Policy"

Charles I, r. 1625-1649

 * Pro-ceremonies and rituals
 * Uniformity of church services imposed by a church court
 * Anglican Book of Common Prayer for both ENG and SCOT
 * Seen as to Pro-Catholic by Puritans
 * Parliament Relations
 * Foreign Wars
 * Always need money, but where is he gonna get it from?
 * Usually Parliament would, but they denied him from time to time. Charles I, in response, dissolved Parliament and would try to get money in different ways: Like selling aristocratic titles.
 * Petition of Rights, 1628