POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Short Parliament, Roundhead, Long Parliament

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Kim Richard Nossal

Document Summary

Three rule functions : making the rules, implementing the rules, adjudicating the rules. Who makes, implements, and adjudicates the rules for a polity: an historical view: absolutism and autocracy, evolution of separating the functions institutionalizing them into. Dividing supreme political authority among these institutions: contrast between parliamentary and presidential systems, shorthand to describe the british system (and polities modeled on it) and the american system. Parliamentary systems today the result of historical evolution that stretches over a millennium. Shaped by: foreign conquest, struggles against absolutist power, civil war. Anglo- saxon roots of constraining the power of the king: moots (meetings) of the anglo-saxons (shire moots and folkmoots, the witenagemot (moot of the witan, or counselors) 100 nobles acting as advisers to the king. First parliament summoned by edward i, 1295. Limiting monarchs right to tax, beginning in 1322. Narrowing the royal prerogative the powers that the king has had historically: case of prohibitions, 1607, case of proclamations, 1611.