Who made England a Democracy?

Answer 1

The Rise of Democracy in EnglandThis was a lengthy process and no one individual was responsible.

If I had to pick out a key turning-point it would be Parliament's resistance to Charles I's attempts to make the country an absolute monarchy, where the king was answerable only to God. The English Civil War(s) of 1642-48 and the execution of Charles I in 1649 were most important.

In the Middle Ages and the early modern period a number of European countries had various kinds of assemblies of the 'Estates of the Realm'. What was remarkable about the English Parliament was that it was gradually transformed into an assembly representing the people (though not always very well).

The next key turning-point after the Civil War was the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 which established the principle that the monarch rules on the basis of a contract as it were.

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