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The Glorious Revolution of 1688, called the Bloodless Revolution, doesn't get a lot of attention when talking about global political revolutions, largely because it was bloodless.

Compared to the French Revolution or the Russian Revolution or even the American Revolution.

It feels kind of me.

It's what a peaceful transfer of power?

Well yeah, but I would argue it's far more significant than we usually assume.

The transfer of power that really mattered here was not the transfer from James II to William III.

That's just another king changing places. I would argue that the glorious revolution was not the

invasion of William III, but a quieter political revolution.

The English Parliament was not exactly keen to hand power over to a Dutch king.

In the horse trading that followed the invasion, the Parliament passed a ton of provisions which put strict limits on royal power and further strengthen the position of the Parliament.

Which, yeah, I mean, that's not sexy, it's not exciting.

We're talking about what here, legislation?

But it is super significant to the development of modern representative democracy.

Thanks to the centuries of English tradition, I mean we could trace this back to the

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