The Act of Settlement 1701 requires that the monarch "join in communion with the Church of England", which effectively means they can't be Roman Catholic.
Catholic, as all English monarchs were before the middle of the reign of Henry VIII.
The english Bill of Rights.
The Bill stipulated that no Catholic would henceforth be permitted to ascend to the English throne, nor could any English monarch marry a Catholic. NovaNETanswer (As well as GradPoint Answer): All monarchs would be required to rule with parliament's participation.
The document that was designed to prevent abuse of power was called the English Bill of Rights. The English Bill of Rights was written by Parliament in 1689.
The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document. This document sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
The document that was designed to prevent abuse of power was called the English Bill of Rights. The English Bill of Rights was written by Parliament in 1689.
Monarchs (rulers, as in king, queen) of England.
It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church.I know of no such laws, although you must remember that it was illegal to be Catholic in England from 1534 when Henry VIII and Parliment created the "Church of England" to the Roman Catholic relief act of 1829. Many Catholics did migrate, especially to Maryland, but they were a tiny percentage of the population. You might say that the English prohibited people from being Catholic, much less from migrating.
The Bill stipulated that no Catholic would henceforth be permitted to ascend to the English throne, nor could any English monarch marry a Catholic. NovaNETanswer (As well as GradPoint Answer): All monarchs would be required to rule with parliament's participation.
The first document to reduce the powers of the English monarchs was the Magna Carta, or Great Charter in English, signed in 1215 by King John.
Languages do not have monarchs.
To provide the correct chronological order of the reigns of English monarchs, please specify the names or list of monarchs you are referring to. Once I have that information, I can accurately arrange them in the correct sequence.