Saturday, May 15, 2010

How did the crowns financial weakness account for the difficulties between the kings and the Parliament...?

in the years 1621 - 1629?? please help me need some ideas points website anything would be helpful..

How did the crowns financial weakness account for the difficulties between the kings and the Parliament...?
James I was King from 1603 to 1625. Charles I was King from 1625 until his execution in 1649.





In this period the Kings still retained in their view that they should govern without parliament based on the concept of the Devine Right of Kings so they did not call a parliament for long periods of time. Parliament did not accept this concept and felt that the King governed with the consent of the people expressed through parliament. But the Kings were short of money and the only way to rise large sums of money to was to call parliament to get them to approve the taxes.





It was this fundamental diference of view that eventually lead to the English Civil war culminating in the execution of Charles I the first in 1649.





Parliament voted to restore the monarchy and Charles II returned to great acclaim in 1660.
Reply:Charles tried to rule without Parliament. He believed in the Divine Right of Kings to rule. Parliament on the other hand was trying to assert its own rights.





The main role of Parliament was to vote tax revenue to the King. Everytime the King wanted more money Parliament demanded concessions.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_o...





So Charles became increasing unhappy about calling Parliaments and looked to other forms of revenue - court fines, ship money etc.


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