{"id":942,"date":"2009-02-05T08:39:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T07:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=942"},"modified":"2009-02-04T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T21:20:00","slug":"1689-bills-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"1689 Bills of Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-944\" title=\"bill_of_rights_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bill_of_rights_cover.jpg\" alt=\"bill_of_rights_cover\" width=\"121\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/generator\/Bill_of_Rights_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/generator\/Bill_of_Rights_US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">US Letter<\/a> PDF 317Kb<\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong> : The 1689 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_Bill_of_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">Bill of Rights<\/a> is an Act of the English Parliament setting out the rights of citizens and the relationship between the Crown and Parliament. It was passed, after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, by the dual monarchs William III and Mary II and declared James II&#8217;s flight from the country to be an abdication of the throne. The Bill of Rights is one of the cornerstones of the &#8216;unwritten&#8217; English constitution, as well as a predecessor of the US Bill of Rights and is also enshrined in the laws of many countries of the former British Empire.<\/p>\n<p>First Published 1689<br \/>\nSourced from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Constitution Society<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download A4 | US Letter PDF 317Kb About : The 1689 Bill of Rights is an Act of the English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,143],"tags":[440,82,438,184,441,437,169,170,306],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-short-work","tag-constitution","tag-democracy","tag-english-parliament","tag-history","tag-law","tag-parliament","tag-politics","tag-revolution","tag-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}