During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated,[5] England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonie...
By the time of the Bill of Rights in 1689 a more explicit constitutional relationship had evolved between the Monarch and his Ministers on the one hand and the Lords and the Commons on the other. It was not until the 1832 Reform Act and the successive extensions of the franchise by ...
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In Britain itself, both the 1832 Reform Act and the increasingly powerful doctrine of free trade were magnifying the political force of commercial and industrial interests.[2] As ever, imperial transformations were closely connected. The abolition of slavery, mainly in the western half of the ...
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[95] Parliamentary reform in 1832 saw the influence of the West India Committee decline. The Slavery Abolition Act, passed the following year, abolished slavery in the British Empire on 1 August 1834, finally bringing the empire into line with the law in the UK (with the exception of the ...
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and should labour so earnestly to make his countrymen understand with what gravity and sobriety it had been effected. Their own Reform Bill came soon after, and it is again characteristic of Millæat once of his enthusiasm and of his steady determination to do for humanity the work that no...
He is best remembered for his reform of the courts and the laws. He improved the courts of justice, introduced the jury system and institutionalized common law throughout the country. 威廉死后,国家的主要家族之间为争夺王位而进行了许多战争。到1154年,威廉的曾孙亨利二世登上王位,从而开始了英格兰安茹...