Chapter 2 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Treasury minister
Exchequer
Puritan army that permitted middle class officers (Political rank no longer done by class/wealth, instead by qualities)
New model army
Liberal faction in the British parliment
Whigs
Origional supporters of the king and today’s conservatives
Tories
Eliminate Roman Catholic aspects of Anglicanism
Puritanism
Radicals who sought “one man, one vote”
Putney levellers
The welsh and the scots
Celtic fringe
Upper house of the British parliament
Clergy men, knighted people.
NOT ELECTED/legitimate
Lords
Judge made law for changing a law biased on the situation
Common law
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Domesday book
Inventory conducted for William the conqueror
Organizations between family and government that civilize humans
Civil society
Clarified parliaments relationship to the crown
Bill of rights
Written legal codes made by legislature
Statutory law
England and Scotland become one country
Act of union
A country not led by a monarch
Republic
The lower level of British parliment
Commons
Nobles limit the powers of the monarch
Magna Carta
Battle of Hastings represent social revolution
Anglo Saxon class replaced with nobles. People earned land by doing military service
Edmund Burke
Change must be gradual, and build on instinct, not desire.
Monarchy + church- fundimental
Culture, if need of change, MODIFY what already exists. GRADUAL CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT
Reform act
Diffrent social groups were allowed to vote one by one, allowing parliment to adjust to the change
Labour Party gained controll of House of Commons in 1945
Pragmatic thinking + gradual movement with ideology > became level class in Britain
John Locke
LIFE, LIBERTY, PROPERTY
people need government to protect their rights
Everyone has natural rights
Hobbes
STATE OF NATURE it is human and natural for people to create society. Will submit gladly to a leader.
Stability important, led by a leader
