The Last of the Stuarts
Role of the Monarch Chief Executive Limits: –Parliament controls money –No absolutism –No standing army
Monarch’s Authority Commander in Chief Civil List Ministers
British vs. U.S. Systems Executive Legislative Cooperation Commanders in Chief Appointed Judges Veto in theory
Scrofula Henry IV of France bestowing the King’s Touch
Population in Million (England and Wales) Army: 70,000 Navy: 50,000
The Party System Whigs vs. Tories Elections every three years
Whigs Agree with Revolution Settlement Tolerate Religious Dissenters War with France a good thing Wealthy Religion a formality
Tories Support King’s power C of E only true Church Flirted with Jacobitism
Party Label Issues limited Court vs. Country “Loyal Opposition” not yet accepted
Ireland and Scotland
Battle of the Boyne
Act of Union (1707) Common Parliament –45 Scottish, 513 English MPs –16 Scottish, 190 English Peers Common weights and measures Common Taxation No Tariff Barriers
Differences Scots keep legal system Presbyterian Church
Dynastic Succession Sophia, Electress of Hanover Prince George Act of Settlement (1701) King George I