Why the long parliamentary tradition was a condition for the formation of the British constitutional monarchy

In the late Middle Ages, the centralized system of power developed in England, the rights of the monarch were gradually strengthened, and the conflicts between the king and the feudal nobility and the citizen class gradually sharpened. 1215, the nobles of London forced the king to sign the Magna Carta, which guaranteed the privileges of the feudal nobility and the interests of some knights and citizens. This document stipulated the rights of the feudal nobility and did not have the content of modern democratic politics, but it limited the power of the king in the form of law and emphasized the principles of "supremacy of law" and "limited royal power". It was gradually recognized as the basis of British constitutional politics. In the middle of the thirteenth century, some nobles, with the support of the citizens, defeated the king and took control of the administration, and then created the prototype of Parliament in England. It was only in the first half of the fourteenth century that a bicameral parliamentary system was formally established in England. Thus Britain formed an early tradition of parliamentary politics, creating the conditions for the formation of a modern constitutional monarchy.

From the point of view of the revolutionary process of the British bourgeoisie, the opposition to feudal monarchy, adhere to the new regime and principles to replace the old set is necessary, there can not be the slightest ambiguity; but after all, Cromwell's reign had caused civil unrest and can only be invited back to the old dynasty to rule the scene, in the opinion of most Britons, the old dynasty absolutely can not be, the democratic **** and the system also does not work. The only feasible, is to transform the monarchy, so that it retains the monarchy in form, but in essence to adapt to the development of capitalism, the implementation of parliamentary democracy to protect the lower house of parliament to hold the highest power (legislative power, etc.), which is a constitutional monarchy.

The so-called constitutional monarchy, that is, everything is determined by law, the monarch has no real power, and itself to follow the decree.