The political Nation and the social basis of power
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- The political nation and the social basis of power
- The political nation
- refers to those people who had economic, political and social influence
- their wealth gave them their influence
- The monarch is heads of the political nation
- Monarchs prerogative
- Foreign policy
- Declaration of war
- right to call and dissolve parliament
- Head of the church of england
- Monarchs prerogative
- refers to those people who had economic, political and social influence
- social basis of power
- between 1500 and 1650, the population doubles in england
- Price inflation
- Food shortage
- land shortage
- Unemployment
- Greater reliance on state for poor relief
- The poorest of the poor died from famine ion 1620s
- The rich got richer
- They could put the price up on land due to increased demand
- there were riots due to the heriarchy but were mainly for laws to protect their positon not a call for overturning the etablished order
- between 1500 and 1650, the population doubles in england
- importance of land ownership and other forms of wealth
- land ownership
- Land remained central to power and wealthas economy stayed agrarian
- benefited by the increasing price of food
- Land remained central to power and wealthas economy stayed agrarian
- Non-landed elite
- worked in the church, medicine, music, surveying, architecture or visual arts
- Overtime used wealth to buy land for their famalies
- Some merchants could have annual incomes of £100,000, while some aristocracy could have as little as £200 a year
- worked in the church, medicine, music, surveying, architecture or visual arts
- land ownership
- The political nation
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