HIST 1003 Chapter : 9 26
Document Summary
>250,000 pay 40 shillings a year in taxes (2 pounds) and thus eligible to vote. Parliamentary parties appear whigs (pro-parliament) ; tories (pro-monarchy) Created orderly government, some policing on tax system. Failed to reverse grant of wide veto parlements (1716) (regional appeals courts) Basic idea is that king intends to do justice. 1 war expenses, debt service, inefficient unequal taxation = not enough money: wanted more efficient government and new taxes on the untaxed. France : debt service = 62% of revenue. Prussia: lost manpower and had debt, fought with austrians. Spain- badly needed money to build navy and prepare for another war. Methods: apply reason and some englightened ideas to revenueproblems. Subordinate church to state; the case of the jesuits (1760s) French royal courts deal with matters of property, pay or gone. Jesuits tried to claim only loyalty to pope. Legal codification and reform (end of judicial torture) one law for all, no torture.
