The First Protectorate Parliament
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- The First Protectorate Parliament Sept 1654- Jan 1655
- What power did the parliament have?
- Acts in conjunction with the Protector as the supreme legislative authority
- This version of Parliament had less power than the Rump and the Parliaments under the rule of monarchs.
- Drew up bills and the Protector had 21 days to dispute it otherwise it passed ( as long as it didn't contradict the Instrument).
- Summoned every 3 years for at least 5 months
- First full election since 1640.
- Couldn't be dissolved or prorogued without consent.
- Acts in conjunction with the Protector as the supreme legislative authority
- What happened during the First Protectorate Parliament?
- Cromwell's ordinances were immediately challenged and lawyers managed to overturn the law reforms.
- Cromwell stood firm in the stance that Instrument could not be changed.
- When he tried to get MPs to sign a 'Recognition' to not change the government from the Instrument, the Commonwealths-men withdrew.
- Parliament wanted to cut the army down from 50,000 to 30,000 because they didn't want to pay for it.
- Why did the First Protectorate Parliament fail?
- Parliament kept to rewrite the constitution that they had previously agreed to.
- These changes would have limited religious liberty.
- They also wanted to reduce the size of the army when there was a royalist uprising beginning in London.
- Cromwell knew that the army was costly and unpopular, but he couldn't risk losing the support of the army by firing 20,000 men.
- When Parliament voted for the militia not to be raised, Cromwell dissolved Parliament in Jan 1655.
- Parliament kept to rewrite the constitution that they had previously agreed to.
- What power did the parliament have?
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