In class notes (4/17) Civil War — Charles II

Oliver Cromwell — main commander in the English civil war

• most powerful main in England after the execution of Charles I

• Dies in 1668

• The Commonwealth becomes the political form of the government of England

• The Rumpt Parliament

  • Wants to settled outstanding greivances and obsolve itself to elect new leaders

  • Cromwall doesn’t want to dissolve- afraid that the last link to the old English political system would be destroyed

  • The Rumpt parliment declared itself permant — Cormwall dissolved

  • Cormwall didn’t want the parilmant to dissolve but also didn’t want them to become permanent

• The British Navy was occupied by fighting the Dutch in a mercany war

• England and the Netherlands are two mercanny, protatesnt powers fighting for the same market

• 1653 → Cormwall makes a system where England is split up into proviences ruled by Generals that rule that crack down on what would be considered sins in the protenstant values

• 1649 → The Barebone parliment — proposes a new constitution

In the short term Dictaorships can be really effective but in the long term what is the dictatorship based on

Lightermacy is different from power— his power is from the army but his lightermacy comes from the common people.

Oliver Cormwall was succeded by his son Richard Cormwall

King Charles II was restored to the throne because he was invited back

Its the Convention Parliament has the upper hand — Charles II was restored because that what the common people wanted — what

Charles II was dependent on his own survival and his own pleasure— highly sucessful and lives and pleasurable life— dies peacfully, reigned peacfullly