"The English Bill of Rights"
An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom;
By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament;
By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed power;
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Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
What is one theme of the Bill of Rights?
(1 point)
Responses
reinstate an absolute monarchy
reinstate an absolute monarchy
equal rights for women
equal rights for women
doing away with cruel and unfair punishment
doing away with cruel and unfair punishment
abolition of enslavement