Question

Parliament created the Petition of Right over concerns about the monarch’s
limitations.
absolutism.
tyranny.
instability.

Answer 1

Answer:

absilutisn parliament created

Answer 2

Tyranny

• As a precondition to granting any future taxes, in 1628 Parliament forced King Charles I to assent to the Petition of Right.
• It stated that the law was higher than the king.
• The petition sought recognition of four principles: no taxation without the consent of Parliament, no imprisonment without cause, no quartering of soldiers on subjects, and no martial law in peacetime.
• This also asked for a settlement of Parliament's complaints against the King's non-parliamentary taxation and imprisonments without trial.
• The Petition of Right was drawn up by Charles’s third Parliament in as many years. He had maintained a tumultuous relationship with the House of Commons, which did not trust Charles and denied him taxes to finance his war against Spain.
• After dismissing his second Parliament, he became the latest monarch to impose a forced loan, an effective tax wherein the monarch compelled gifts from his subjects and imprisoned those who did not comply.
• Parliament found this to be a violation of the spirit of the Magna Carta, which provided that the monarch could not levy taxes without common consent or imprison a free man without cause, and thus drafted the Petition (at the suggestion of Edward Coke) to reclaim the rights of Parliament and of free men and to extract a recommitment from the crown to observe the rule of law.
• To continue receiving subsidies for his policies, Charles was compelled to accept the petition, but he later ignored its principles.

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