The Glorious Revolution: ‘Contract’ and ‘Abdication’ Reconsidered

1 September 1982

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Historical Journal

Vol. 25 (3) , 541-555
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x0001178x

Abstract

On 28 January 1689 the house of commons of the newly assembled Convention resolved that King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of this kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government and that the throne is thereby vacant.

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