Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What factors account for the limited
success of the Protectorate 1653-1659
- Legality/legitimacy
- Instrument of
Government never truly
accepted
- Parliament not called by a monarch
Anlagen:
- Parliamentary conservatism
- Commonwealth's Men
- Redamittance in second
Parlaiments 2nd session
caused division
- Elections didn't return
a house submissive to
Cromwell and the
Army
- Challenged
Protector's right to
issue ordinances,
sough to restrict his
power
- Lawyers overturned law
reforms
- Supicious of Army
- Army
- Major Generals
- Resentment from
gentry due to local
power being taken
away by soldiers.
- In charge of enforcing
poor law, decimiation
tax, controlling public
morality
- Cromwell
- Richard's incompetence
- Death in September 1658
- Dismissed Parliament on many
occasions, failing to come to
agreements
- Implemented Oath of Recognition
- Opposition
- Royalists - saw the
Protectorate as illegal
- Radicals
- Political - wanted
more fundamental
constitutional reforms
- Religous - saw Cromwell
as the man who had
destroyed their chance of
creating the new Jerusalem
- Republicans/Commonwealth's-men -
opposed to any form of government
with a 'single-person' element.
Opposed to Cromwell due to military
coup dissolving the Rump
- 80 MPs refused to take the Oath of
Recognition and were excluded