CSPAN3 James Madison And The Constitution July 25, 2016
Convert to catholicism and he also had a son. Now in england in 1688 meant the spanish armada and louis xiv. The spanish armada was history but louis xiv was very much alive. And england could swallow a Catholic King but they could not swallow a string of them. So after james had a son in 1688 the nation rose up and offered the crown to william of orange who was james nephew and soninlaw. Hed married his elder daughter mary. The family the house of stewart was sort of like sopranos in turn of its internal dynamics. And william accepted as a condition of being king of england a bill of rights w...