3. –I. Monarchy –A. the Stuart Dynasty, 1603-1689 –1. origins in Scotland –2. since the Restoration, 1660 –B. political traditions limit the Crown –1. Magna Carta: the liberties of Englishmen –2. a ‘mixed constitution’ including Parliament –II. Religion: the major Protestant state in Europe –A. the established Church of England –1. created by the Crown –2. property and patronage in private hands –B. Protestant nonconformity –1. puritan movement –2. legal disabilities after 1660

5. III. Seventeenth-Century Contrasts with Europe A. economy 1. commercial agriculture 2. overseas trade B. politics 1. the English Revolution, 1649-1660 2. Louis XIV’s absolutism a. monarch unaccountable b. no national representative assembly c. centralized taxation and military