What was english bill of rights

The Bill of Rights was designed to control the power of kings and queens and to make them subject to laws passed by Parliament. This concession by the royal family has been called the "bloodless revolution" or the "glorious revolution. The Bill of Rights was one of three very important laws made at this time. The other two were the Toleration Act which promoted religious toleration and the Triennial Act, which prevented the King from dissolving Parliament at his will and held that general elections had to be held every three years.

The Bill of Rights An Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution of laws, without consent of parliament.

By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates, for humbly petitioning to be excused concurring to the said assumed power. By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the great seal for erecting a court called, The court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes. By levying money for and to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, for other time, and in other manner, than the same was granted by parliament.

By raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace, without consent of parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law. By causing several good subjects, being protestants, to be disarmed, at the same time when papists were both armed and employed, contrary to law.

By violating the freedom of election of members to serve in parliament. By prosecutions in the court of King's bench, for matters and causes cognizable only in parliament; and by divers other arbitrary and illegal courses.

And whereas of late years, partial, corrupt, and unqualified persons have been returned and served on juries in trials and particularly divers jurors in trials for high treason, which were not freeholders. And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subject.

And excessive fines have been imposed; and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted. And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures, before any conviction or judgment against the persons, upon whom the same were to be levied. All of which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes, and freedom of this realm. That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the executions of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.

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See More. Image via National Archives of the United Kingdom , public domain. The First Amendment constitutes the first 45 words of a larger document known as the Bill of Rights. The document, which initially came to be known as the English Bill of Rights of , contains many rights that were later included in the First Amendment, such as the right to petition and freedom of speech and debate specifically targeted, like the speech and debate clause in the U.

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