Western Civilization II / Unit 2 WC2 0114 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Britain in the Eighteenth Century: Hanovers, Parliament, Voltaire's Model
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The idea
The German-born Hanoverian kings deferred to parliament on law and taxation after sixteen eighty-eight. Britain became France's perennial adversary and political opposite, bent on a commercial overseas empire and on pushing France out of North America and India.
In practice
Voltaire looked to Britain as the model of a free state.
Where people slip
The anchor says a written constitution; the course says the Bill and statute.
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