Restoration Project

The Glorious Revolution was where King James the second, King of Scotland, Ireland, and England, tried to make Catholicism the only religion of the land. He tried to take away power from the Parliament who obviously opposed this, and King James tried to form his own type of parliament full of supporters who shared the same views as the King. These supporters were obviously Catholic and wanted the country to be Catholic as well.


Later, when King James had a son, the Parliament expressed fear that the English monarchy might fall into a Catholic dynasty. The Parliament then called King James' son-in-law, William of Orange, who was a Protestant. William led his army into England and King James fled the country. The English Parliament then gave throne to William and his wife, Mary. The Revolution is also called The Bloodless Revolution because supposedly, no blood was shed during this fight for the rights of Protestants.


I think that the Revolution was important because it established a Bill of Rights and restricted the power that a monarch could hold. After these events, Protestants established their freedom and England became a little more free from a king that holds to much power. I thing that after the Revolution, the people had a little more say so and the government influenced alot of what modern day democracy is now. It was in this time that a Bill of Rights for a country was created, which is one of the basic elements of democracy, the rights of the individual. Another is the lessened power of the monarchy and strengthening of the Parliament, which represents the people. This aspect of governmental change also reflects modern day democracy, that is the voice and sovereignty of the people. I know that this time in English history is not like what modern day democracy is now, but I do believe that these events had alot to do with influencing it.

In the religious aspect of these events, people probably began to be a little more open minded about religion. People probably learned to accept religious differences because Parliament wanted the Protestant religion to have rights as well.



Satire- I define the word satire as sarcasam, to make fun of, or irony. A very general example of the word satire would be a funny spoof of something. Like those spoof movies such as Scary Movie that makes fun of other movies that are supposed to be scary. The movie instead uses sarcasam and makes the movie look funny. Another more specific example of the word satire would be the political cartoons that you see in newspapers. These define satire to me because they take something from a political situation, and use irony to be sarcastic about the situation or person and make fun of it.