The Political Nation
What The Political Nation means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A crucial group acting as a catalyst for change, whose relationship with the Crown evolved in response to financial and religious policies.
The group whose power broadened beyond the monarch between 1603 and 1702, including the tax-controlling gentry and the merchant classes.
The nobility, gentry and wealthy merchants whose reaction to the dissolution of Parliament and the imprisonment of key MPs was mixed.
Topics that use The Political Nation
- 1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702 – consequence in this period through the following key questions: (AQA A-Level)
- 1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702 – Monarchs and Parliaments, 1603–1629 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- 1689 Toleration Act
- Arminianism
- Clarendon Code
- Constitutional change
- Crown and Parliament
- Divine Right
- Extra-parliamentary resistance
- Financial revolution
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