oops! Wrong Charles.
Posted on 03/10/2015 9:09:17 AM PDT by Paul46360
1629
Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.
2014 - King Obama I ignores Congress and rules alone unopposed by the Republican Party.
King Obama I ignores Congress and VJ rules.
Try this link..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L32Wq9tRFUM
Fun fact about King Charles; he was 5’6” when he began his reign, and died at only 4’8”!
Since England switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, I wonder if you can still say “on this date in history” for years before that.
Removing that top ten inches "t'was only a flesh wound".
If they had hanged him instead he might’ve made it to 5’10’’!
1692 would be Charles II off abroad.
All that power must have gone to his head.
oops! Wrong Charles.
Oh. Never mind.
Interesting fact about the English Civil War. Most of the younger and more progressive nobles supported the King. Those who supported Parliament were mostly the older and more conservative ones.
This was because royal absolutism was almost universally viewed at the time as the wave of the future.
100 or 200 years before most European nations had something similar to the English system of King and Parliament. Some sort of representative body.
They’d been pretty much all destroyed or made powerless except in England, and most expected it to occur there.
So the Parliamentarians were not thought of, as they are today, as harbingers of the future, but as old fogies stuck in the past.
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