By What Authority - The Fortunate Revolution.

American Political History · Jul 16, 2022 · 17m

The Dominion of New England did not fall because the colonies resisted it. It fell because the king who built it lost his throne in a single winter. This is the finale of By What Authority: the Glorious Revolution told from the imperial side, where it actually happened. James the Second, a Catholic king of a Protestant country, tried to suspend the law by royal decree — and found, when his son was born and a Catholic dynasty loomed, that England would not be ruled at a king's pleasure. William of Orange published his reasons and crossed the Channel on a Protestant wind; James threw the Great…