[Constitutionalism]
  
Before class 
  
      * Read Palmer, 147-167 
 
      * Key terms
  
	Bank of Amsterdam 
	William III 
	stadholder 
	Navigation Act 
	English-Dutch Wars 
	Archbishop Laud 
	Long Parliament 
	Rump 
	Solemn League and Covenant 
	Test Act 
	Tories 
	Whigs 
	Dissenters 
	Treaty of Dover 
	Glorious Revolution 
	William and Mary 
	United Kingdom of Great Britain		

      * Key questions

  
1. Explain the nature of government and of political life in the seventeenth century Dutch 
Republic.

2. How did the Dutch come into conflict with the English and French in the seventeenth 
century?  With what results? 

3. Why did the English Parliament come into conflict with James I?  with Charles I?  How did 
the special nature of Parliament make its resistance effective?
 
4. How did the civil war begin?  How did Cromwell emerge as ruler of England? 

5. Describe the government of England under the Commonwealth and the Protectorate

6. How would you evaluate Cromwell's role in English history? 

7. Of what constitutional significance for England was the Revolution of 1688?  What were the 
consequences of these events for Scotland?  for Ireland?

[Constitutionalism]

In class 
  
      * Outline 
  
		1. James I and Charles I: constitutional breakdown 
  
		2. Civil war and Cromwell's republic 
  
		3. Restoration: from triumph to failure 
  
		4. Glorious Revolution and outcome 
  
      * Key terms
  
	Puritan 
	Presbyterians 
	King James Version 
	Petition of Right 
        "no bishops, no king"
	Independents 
	Oliver Cromwell 
	Dissenters
	Declaration of Indulgence 
	Glorious Revolution 			
	Bill of Rights 

      * Key question
  
	Why did absolutism succeed in France but fail in England?