What the English Revolution of 1688 meant. Jul 23, 2007, Vol.
12, No. 42 • By GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB By mid-December William was
installed in St. James's Palace. Three months later, after
repeated compromises by both Houses, and the intervention of
William himself, Parliament issued and William agreed to what
became known as the "Declaration of Rights," which set down the
conditions under which William and Mary became king and queen.
That Declaration, officially passed as a statute with royal
approval in December 1689, bore the title "An Act Declaring the
Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and Settling the Succession
of the Crown." It itemized the dozen ways in which James had
tried to "subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the
laws and liberties of this kingdom." Some involved the
usurpation of Parliament's rights: suspending and executing
laws, levying money, keeping a standing army and quartering
soldiers, creating an ecclesiastical commission, all without the
consent of Parliament. Others were