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Parliamentary Commerce Built Power
- Britain in the 18th century combined a stable parliamentary system with growing commercial power.
- This mix set the foundation for nineteenth-century global dominance despite not being inevitable.
Glorious Revolution's Lasting Compromise
- The Glorious Revolution forced the monarchy to share power and respect civil rights.
- That compromise created a durable constitutional framework still recognizable today.
Elite Politics Masked As Representation
- Eighteenth-century Britain was not a democracy: voting was limited and corruption was endemic.
- Rotten boroughs and open bribery meant Parliament served elites, not the mass population.