Question

do you agree with Christopher hill that the 1640 English revolution was not a social revolution? explain​

Answer 1

Answer:

The Whigs were the dominant force in parliamentary politics in the eighteenth century and they remained important in the first part of the nineteenth century. Founded in opposition to Charles II, they embraced the principles of the ‘Glorious’ English revolution of 1688 and were supportive of the Hanoverian succession of 1714. The Whigs rejected royal absolutism and by extension any claims by the monarch to exercise personal authority. The Whigs' central ideas emphasised the virtues of limited government, the importance of a balanced or mixed constitution based on parliamentary power and representation based on property not individual rights. Whig thought was especially influenced by the writings of John Locke (1632–1704) and the classical republicanism of James Harrington (1611–77). Whig ideology thus stood in contrast to Tory views about the prerogative rights of the Crown on the one hand and radical populism and democratic individualism on the other.