what were the impacts of the English civil war?

Question

what were the impacts of the English civil war in England?

I am talking about the roundheads/cavaliers civil war

Answer 1

Which one?

All of the civil wars in England were due to challenges to the throne of England, are you talking about the War of the Roses?

Answer 2

No, English regulation began centuries until now the English civil conflict. however the Parliamentary victory interior the conflict, and the execution of the King and the (non everlasting) abolition of the monarchy, did initiate a technique via which Parliament, no longer the King, became for all functional purposes the only sovereign power interior the country, which it maintains to be at present. So, Brenda knew that she had extra suitable placed on a great instruct for the Jubilee, or she'd get her head chopped off like her ancestor :-)

Answer 3

First and most obvious -- Changes in Government

Parliament's victory over the Royalists supporting Charles I (culminating in his trial and execution), was key in ending the era of the "absolute" monarch. When the monarchy was revived in the Restoration (1660), it was a LIMITED monarchy in which the exercise of the monarch's powers required Parliament's assent. (This was finally firmly established in the Glorious Revolution of 1689.)
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0857998.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-EnglishCivilWar.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-Restoration.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Glorious.html


Religious results & relationship of parts of Great Britain:

Parliament's concern with absolutism under Charles I was bound together with its opposition to Catholicism allowed and later encouraged by the Stuart kings (esp. later under James II). Along with this was the opposition of the SCOTS, who had been resisting Charles I's efforts to force the Scottish church to adopt 'high church' Anglican practices (in the Bishop's War out of which the Civil War grew).
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9080302/Bishops-Wars

As a result of the Scottish and Parliamentary victory

a) the Scottish Church (Presbyterians) met together with English at Westminster Abbey -- this "Westminster Assembly (of Divines)" drafted a set of documents for the governing of the church, including doctrinal 'standards' (the Westminster Confession of Faith, along with the Longer and Shorter Catechisms) highly regarded as clear statement of Presbyterian/Reformed teaching, and still in use in Presbyterian churches
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Assembly
http://www.apuritansmind.com/WCF/McMahonHistoryWestminsterAssembly.htm
http://www.tenth.org/wowdir/wow1999-09-26.html

b) The Catholic supporters of Charles, esp. the IRISH Catholics, were resented and oppressed, leading to greater intolerance towards them. . .a major downturn in the relationship between Great Britain and Ireland.

c) Wales became more closely tied to Great Britain
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~chri2057/z1998englcivwar.htm


COLONIAL impact -

Note that this 17th century struggle about the source of power/authority was happening in the midst of migrations to the American colonies. The colonists took with them the political ideologies of the anti-monarchical forces, and these issues re-surfaced in a new form in the struggles that led to the American Revolution and independence. (Thus, for example, the "English Bill of Rights of 1689" -- which helped establish the "Glorious Revolution" -- is reflected in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.)

Another change I've seen mentioned -- a shift (beginning of a new tradition) in how prisoners of war were viewed and hence treated -- no longer as "property"
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~chri2057/z1998englcivwar.htm