25 Dez 1679 Jahr - The Exclusion Bill

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The Exclusion Bill was a proposed law introduced in the English Parliament in 1679 that aimed to exclude the Catholic Duke of York, later King James II, from the line of succession to the English throne.

The bill was introduced by the Whig party, who feared that a Catholic monarch would threaten the Church of England and endanger the country's Protestantism. The Exclusion Bill passed in the House of Commons but was blocked by the House of Lords, and attempts to reintroduce similar bills led to the dissolution of Parliament and the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-1681.

The crisis ended with the accession of James II to the throne and the passage of the Test Act, which aimed to prevent Catholics from holding public office. the The Exclusion Bill was not passed in the end and failed

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