History GCSE
Parliament as a law-making body
What Parliament as a law-making body means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Parliament as a law-making body
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Under Henry VIII its role was to legitimise the king's religious and political changes rather than to challenge him, passing the laws that enacted the Reformation.
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