History of the United States, Vol. II Conflict & Independence-Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard
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Section one of the History of the United States Part two This is a Libravox recording. All Libravox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librevox dot org History of the United States by Charles A Beard and Mary Ritterbeard. Part two Section one Part two Conflict and Independence Chapter five The new course in British Imperial Policy On october twenty fifth, seventeen sixty, King George II died and the British crown passed to his young grandson. The first George, the son of the Elector of Hanover and Sophia, the granddaughter of James I was was a thorough German who never even learned to speak the language of the land over which he reigned. The second George never saw England until he was a man.
He spoke English with an accent and until his death preferred his German home. During their reign the principle had become well established that the king did not govern, but acted only through ministers representing the majority in parliament. George III and his system. The character of the new king. The third George rudely broke the German tradition of his family. He resented the imputation that he was a foreigner and on all occasions made a display of his British sympathies. To the draft of his first speech to Parliament he added the popular phrase Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Britain. Macaulay, the English historians certainly have no liking for high royal prerogatives.
Said of George The young king was a born Englishman, all his tastes and habits, good and bad were English. No portion of his subjects had anything to reproach him with. His age, his appearance, and all that was known of his character conciliated public favor. He was in the bloom of youth, his person and address were pleasing, and Scandal imputed to him no vice, and flattery might without glaring absurdity ascribe to him many princely virtues. Nevertheless, George III had been spoiled by his mother, his tutors, and his courtiers. Under their influence he developed high and mighty notions about the sacredness of royal authority and and his duty to check the pretensions of parliament and the ministers dependent upon it.
His mother had dinned into his ears the slogan George B. Kink. Lord Butte, his teacher and advisor, had told him that his honor required him to take an active part in the shaping of public policy. and the making of laws. Thus educated he surrounded himself with courtiers that who encouraged him in the determination to rule as well as reign. To subdue all parties, and to place himself at the head of the nation and empire. Political parties and George III. The state of the political parties favoured the plans of the king to restore some of the ancient lustre of the crown. The Whigs who were composed mainly of the smaller freeholders, merchants, inhabitants of towns, and Protestant nonconformists. had grown haughty and overbearing.
Through long continuance in power, and had as a consequence raised up many enemies in their own ranks. Their opponents, the Tories, had by this time given up all hope of restoring to the throne the direct Stuart line. But they still cherished their old notions about divine rights. With the accession of George III, the coveted opportunity came to them to rally around the throne again. George received his Tory friends with open arms, gave them offices, and bought them seats in the House of Commons.
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