1. The Last of the Stuarts 1689-1714

2. Role of the Monarch Chief Executive Limits: –Parliament controls money –No absolutism –No standing army

3. Monarch’s Authority Commander in Chief Civil List Ministers

4. British vs. U.S. Systems Executive Legislative Cooperation Commanders in Chief Appointed Judges Veto in theory

5. Scrofula Henry IV of France bestowing the King’s Touch

6. Population in 1700 5.5 Million (England and Wales) Army: 70,000 Navy: 50,000

7. The Party System Whigs vs. Tories Elections every three years

8. Whigs Agree with Revolution Settlement Tolerate Religious Dissenters War with France a good thing Wealthy Religion a formality

9. Tories Support King’s power C of E only true Church Flirted with Jacobitism

10. Party Label Issues limited Court vs. Country “Loyal Opposition” not yet accepted

11. Ireland and Scotland

12. Battle of the Boyne

14. 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

15. Differences Scots keep legal system Presbyterian Church

16. Dynastic Succession Sophia, Electress of Hanover Prince George Act of Settlement (1701) King George I