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 CHAPTER XVI.

THE REVOLUTION.—1689 TO 1714.

DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

1. The changes made in the government by taking the crown from James the Second, and giving it to William the Third, was called the Revolution, and was a good thing for England, as it was then settled that no sovereign, in the future, should follow his own will, or act contrary to the laws of the country; that all new laws should be proposed by the parliament,