Mp’s started quarrelling about religious questions such as should baptism happen to children or adults these things started to really annoy Cromwell with these quarrels. So Cromwell was now fed up and he was sick and tired of all these quarrels in parliament so he closed down parliament saying you have sat here too long for the good you do in the name of God go he took the title of the protector and ruled until death in 1658 the army generals had won. Cromwell was now in charge. When Cromwell closed down parliament he gained
The Independents had a strong following in the parliamentary army and had the support of Oliver Cromwell. Afraid of their power, Presbyterian members of the House of Commons tried to disband the army. The soldiers were furious, especially as Parliament made no effort to pay them the wages that were due to them. Oliver and the army decided to take action.
When details of the Pact were released by the press, the public were outraged, and the Labour Party claimed if the reports in the press of the contents of the Pact were true, then the government was contradicting the pro-League policy it had just won the election on. Politicians felt as if the government was breaking election promises, and this influenced the public opinion, resulting in the abandonment of the
In the recent election Tony Abbot became Prime minister, this is by far the most blatant example of people being blind to the past and regressing due to unwillingness to see. In 1982 the White Australia Policy was abolished, the intention was that Australia would be a country anyone of any nationality could call home, now we have asylum seekers trying to land on our shores, a prime minister determined to turn them back at any cost and a majority of the population who elected him, how is this showing progress and lowering levels of racism? It’s not just those who are trying to gain access, it’s the people already here who still feel segregated. Randa Abdel-Fattah wrote a short story titled “Of Middle Eastern Appearance” that was published in the anthology “True Blue”, it is an account of her life in Australia and the difficulties she faced being someone with a Middle Eastern background. She recounts how she was once asked by a teenage girl “Do you ever wish you were fully Aussie… like Anglo?” this is a view shared by far too many and the fact that it was asked at a school highlights the acceptance of it amongst the public almost to the point of encouragement.
It is the home of the free and land of the brave. Yet it seems since these attacks, America has repeatedly failed many of our citizens by not protecting them or them being falsely accused. We must realize that there is a greater picture here. If we are so willing to stray from the rules and laws our country is built upon, doesn’t that make us closer to a bigger evil- the dissolution of our nation and government? Quite frankly, that terrifies me.
I do not feel that Joseph McCarthy should be considered a patriot. He used his position to create fear in people about communism. He made attacks against people without proof and stated that the democrats had been responsible for twenty years of treason. Joseph McCarthy headed a subcommittee in which he badgered witnesses cruelly, often ruining careers. He, McCarthy was never able to produce actual evidence of actual communism.
Unity or independence was very important to the colonists before the Revolutionary War because they didn’t have the rights we do today. Colonists couldn’t trade with the world, weren’t protected of their rights, imposed taxes, and a lot more. The king of the colonies had treated them with a lot of disrespect. He had not given them any freedom whatsoever, and had just made them follow his unjust rules and law. Although they knew the consequences or punishments for doing so, the colonists had found ways to smuggle.
The Repeal of the Corn Laws contributed hugely to the downfall of the Tory party as it was the issue that caused an equal divide in cabinet. It was controversial because Peel had once again gone against his party’s word to win over the Irish in a way which betrayed the ultras, essentially his most significant support. Contrastingly to Peel’s social policies, which is the least important factor, the Repeal of the Corn Laws had a much more wider and significant effect on Peel’s position as leader of his own party, he was labelled a ‘betrayer’ by the Disraeli’s and was considered no longer fit to lead the Tories. Peel’s own morality put the nation, which at the time was the starving lower class of the Irish, before party politics, however this
That man left to his institutions and placing himself above the will of the people, will surely lead to tyranny. Burke could very well (in my opinion) be talking to the politicians of today when he said he would sound wild and chimerical or that he was not in touch with reality, but that it was them the members of parliament that were “the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians” (Burke, 1775, Speech on reconciliation with America pg 2), that they have no place among the common people grappling with everyday reality in our pursuit of happiness. I was shocked that Burke would take this stance, given the animosity felt by parliament, the once thought to be friends of the American cause “the merchants of England” and the crown (grossly misinformed). I was pleasantly surprised at his ability to put the situation on a higher plain then just a gripe by the Americans don’t want to be taxed and pay their fair share, but to bring into the English mind that maybe they have lost touch with what previous generations or ancestors had accomplished in the English constitution, and putting the financial woes of the country aside and personal feelings about the Americans aside, that there might be a better way to conciliation with the
For example, the Federal Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi made a request to ban the burqa because he thought that it was being used as a disguise by criminals, this allegation was later rejected due to a lack of evidence. Evidently, The Crucible is relevant to our modern society because every day, we see these unsubstantiated claims being made against certain people in our