Although in Britain's Constitutional System the Monarch Ruled with Parliament

question 31

Multiple Choice

Although in Britain's constitutional system the monarch ruled with Parliament, power was still contained within a very small elite in the eighteenth century. What was the reason for this?

• A) The middle and lower classes had little interest in politics, as they were more concerned with the new consumer revolution.
• B) Only a few hundred thousand propertied men could vote, and most members of Parliament came from the landed gentry.
• C) Both Protestant and Catholic churches encouraged believers to stay out of politics to avoid rekindling the conflicts that had fed the English civil war.
• D) Since so small a percentage of the population was literate at that time, even those who wanted to engage in politics had little means to do so.

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