Short Parliament

When the Short Parliament in 1640 from England, called by King Charles I. English Parliament is called, which met in the period 13 April to 5 May 1640 for only three weeks.

With the convening of the brief Parliament a eleven-year period came to an end, had tried in the Charles I. to rule without Parliament. Progressive circles have referred to this time as an eleven-year period of tyranny. Charles I had, however, the legitimate rights of Parliament just not touched, but simply trying to organize his government in a way that he would not have needed the approval of the Parliament, especially in the imposition of new taxes. Engaged in Scotland - actually the ancestral homeland of the Stuart rulers - ereignenden Presbyterian rebellions, however, led to a drastic crisis of royal funds that the king finally again tried to persuade Parliament to increase its subsidies.

As elected officials, however, in April 1640 arrived at Westminster Abbey, they showed little inclination to comply Charles wishes for speedy Subsidienbewilligung. As the mostly unsuccessful verlaufenen parliaments of the 1620s penetrated the deputies of the lower house, first, to discuss issues of religious politics and foreign affairs, in which they had but I did not interfere according to the understanding of Charlemagne. Under the impression that an agreement seemed impossible, Charles I dissolved parliament already on 5 May 1640 again.

However, it did not succeed to make again a longer period of rule without Parliament participation. In the same year Charles I had given the problems his government a new parliament convened, that would be known as the Long Parliament in the story as opposed to the short parliament.

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