British Constitutionalism

In what is considered one of the most fascinating period of its history, Europe went through irreversibly drastic changes in the 17th century. And these modifications have eventually come to form the modern world as we know it today. It was then that Galileo and Newton founded the basis for modern science, and it was then that Hobbes and John Locke started modern political theory. Equally important amidst all these advances and seemingly endless series of wars and battles was the governmental restructuring of the great European power, England. Between the political turmoil of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, there came about a shift to constitutionalism in the English politics. Monarchy weakened with its blatant incompetence and this inevitably led to limitations and restrictions in the voice of the government. Possibly the leading spark in the founding of modern democracy, the 17th century marked for the Great Britain transformation to constitutionalism.

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