PARLIAMENTS Flashcards
(12 cards)
-WHAT IS PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEDGE?
-LEGAL PROTECTION THAT ALLOWS MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT TO SPEAAK FREELY DURING DEBATES AND CARRY OUT WORK WITHOUT INTERFERENCE FROM THE MONARCH
-HOW LONG DID JAMES FIRST PARLIAMENT LAST FOR AND WHAT WAS ITS MAIN ISSUE?
-1604-11
-THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROYAL PREROGATIVE AND PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEDGE
-WHAT WAS THE 1604 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ELECTION?
-A DISPUTE BETWEEN JAMES AND PARLIAMENT OVER WHO NHAD THE RIGHT TO DECIDE ELECTION RESULTS
-FRANCIS GOODWIN WAS ELECTED AS MP BUT THE KINGS OFFICIALS DISQUALIFIED HIM FOR A PAST LEGAL ISSUE AND REPLACED HIM WITH JOHN FORTESCUE
-PARLIAMENT OBJECTED CLAIMINGB THAT IT HADS TRHEW RIGHT TO DECIDE ELECTIONS AND NOT THE KING
- THIS EXPOSED EARLY TENSIONS BETWEEN PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEDGE AND ROYAL PREROGATIVE
-WHAT WAS THE 1604 SHIRLEY’S CASE?
-INN 1604, THE MP THOMAS SHIRLEY WAS ARRESTED FOR DEBT
- HIS ARREST UPSET MP’S WHO WANTED TO EXERCISE THE APRLIAMENTARY PRIVILEDGE OF BEING FREE FROM ARREST WHILE PARLIAMENT WAS SITTING
-THEY SENT THE GOVERNOR OF THE PRISON TO THE TOWER OF LONDON UNTIL SHIRLEY WAS RELEASED
-WHY WAS THE 1606 UNIFICATION OPF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND AN ISSUE?
- THE UNIFICATION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND WAS PART OF JAMES PLAN FOR THE KINGDOM TO BE SECURE INTERNALLY
- THERE WAS IMMEDIATE AND INTENSE OPPOSITION
- FOR SOME THERE WAS CONCERN THAT THAT THE NEW STATE WOULD ABOLISH ENGLISH LAWS SINCE THE KING COULD REWRITE LAWS AND GIVE HIMSELF ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY
-PARLIAMENTS ANTI-SCOTTISH STANCE ALIENATED JAMES FROM PARLIAMENT - IN THE END HIS PLANS FOR A UNION COLLAPSED
- WHEN WAS JAMES 2ND PARLIAMENT INTRODUCED, WHAT WAS IT CALLED AND HOW LONG DID IT LAST?
-1614
-CALLED THE ADDLED PARLIAMENT
-LASTED 8 WEEKS BEFORE BEING DISSOLVED
- WHY DID THE ADDLED PARLIAMENT FALL APART?
- FINANCIAL- THE FAILURE OF THE 1610 GREAT CONTRACT, THE DEATH OF ROBERT CECIL AND THE CONTINUED SELLING OF CROWN LANDS PUT PRESSURE ON JAMES TO CALL ON PARLIAMENTFOR FUNDS
-FACTIONAL CONFLICT BETWEEN THE PRO SPANISH CATHOLIC HOWARDS AND THE PROTESTANT FACTION
-IMPOSISTIONS
WHEN WAS JAMES 3RD PARLIAMENT CALLED?
1621
- WHAT ISSUES WERE PRESENT IN JAMES’ 1621 PARLIAMENT?
-FACTIONS- MPS FOCUSED ON THE ABUSE OF MONOPOLIES TO ATTACK BUCKINGHAM
-BUCKINGHAM,COKE AND CRANFIELD ENCOURAGED PARLIAMENT TO IMPEACH THEIR RIVAL FRANCIS BACON OVER MONOPOLIES
-FOREIGN POLICY- JAMES WAS PUSHING FOR THE SPANISH MATCH AS A WAY TO SETTLE THE WAR BUT PARLIAMENT VOICED STRONG ANTI-CATHOLIC SENTIMENT AND PUSHED FOR WAR
- IN 1621 PARLIAMENT PRODUCED A PETITION CRITICISING THE SPANISH MATCH AND JAMES STATED THAT FOREIGN POLICY WAS PART OF HIS PREROGATIVE AND NOT UP FOR DISCUSSION
- PARLIAMENT PROTESTED STHIS SAYING THAT IT WAS THEIR RIGHT TO DISCUSS FOREIGN POLICY AND JAMES ANGERED BY THIS DISSOLVED THE PARLIAMENT
- WHAT WAS THE 1623 MADRID TRIP AND WHAT WENT WRONG?
-CHARLES AND BUCKINGHAM TRAVELLED TO SPAIN TO SECURE THE SPANISH MATCH
-THEY RECIEVED POOR TREATMENT AT THE SPANISH COURT DUE TO ANT-PROTESANT SENTIMENTS
- BOTH CHARLES AND BUCKINGHAM CONVERTED TO WANTING WAR WITH SPAIN
- IN 1624 AN AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED FOR CHARLES TO MARY THE FRENCH PRINCESS HENRIETTA MARIA THEREFORE ALIGNING ENGLAND WITH SPAINS MAIN RIVAL FRANCE
- WHEN WAS JAMES’ 4TH PARLIAMENT CALLED AND WHAT TOOK PLACE WITHIN IT?
-1624
- BY THIS POINT JAMES WAS ALREADY ILL AND CHARLES AND BUCKINGHAM WERE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN FOREIGN POLICY
- THE CRUCIAL ISSUE WAS OVER WHETHER ENGLAND SHOULD INTERVENE IN THE EUROPEAN WAR
-AFTER THE FAILED MADRID TRIP IN 1623 CHARLES AND BUCKINGHAM SUPPORTED A WAR WITH SPAIN
- WHEN JAMES BEGAN TO PUSH FOR FOR AN ANTI-SPANISH STANCE, MP’S WERE RELUCTANT TO PROVIDE THAE FUNDS THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR AN AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY
JAMES DIED IN MARCH 1625
