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... With James gone, Parliament declared the throne vacant and, on its own authority in 1689, proclaimed William and Mary the new monarchs, completing the successful bloodless “Glorious Revolution. ...
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 established a framework of government by and for the governed that seemed to bear out the arguments of John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government. ... Locke had written the essay before the revolution, but it came to be read as a justification for it. Although neither in fact nor a theory as “popular” revolution such as would occur in America and France a hundred years later, the Glorious Revolution did establish in England a permanent check on monarchical power by the classes represented in Parliament.
Approximate Word count = 399 Approximate Pages = 1.6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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