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2 giorni fa · The Bill of Rights confirmed traditional English liberties, especially the power of Parliament to make laws and consent to taxation. It also confirmed and guaranteed freedom of speech and denied the legitimacy of cruel and unusual punishments.
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4 giorni fa · Toleration Act, (May 24, 1689), act of Parliament granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e., dissenting Protestants such as Baptists and Congregationalists). It was one of a series of measures that firmly established the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) in England.
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4 giorni fa · [clarification needed] The Bill of Rights 1689 formally established a system of constitutional monarchy and ended moves towards absolute monarchy by restricting the power of the monarch, who could no longer suspend laws, levy taxes, make royal appointments or maintain a standing army during peacetime without Parliament's consent.
- 1688–1689
13 mag 2024 · Law Reports. The English Reports (ER) (available in print and online, see links below) reprinted those considered still valuable when the Victorians reformed the system with the (Incorporated) Council of Law Reporting. The Revised Reports is a rival reprint, which sometimes has preserved cases not available in the ERs.
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2 giorni fa · The 1689 Toleration Act granted England’s Protestant dissenting ministers legal protection to erect meeting houses and to worship outside of the Church of England if they qualified by swearing the oath of allegiance to King William III and Queen Mary, and by subscribing to 36 articles within the Church’s doctrinal standard, the Thirty-Nine Artic...
29 apr 2024 · John Locke’s philosophy inspired and reflected Enlightenment values in its recognition of the rights and equality of individuals, its criticism of arbitrary authority (e.g., the divine right of kings), its advocacy of religious toleration, and its general empirical and scientific temperament.
1 giorno fa · The English Bill of Rights (1689) was an inspiration for the American Bill of Rights. Both require jury trials, contain a right to keep and bear arms, prohibit excessive bail and forbid "cruel and unusual punishments".
