{"podcast":{"title":"Consequential Actions Podcast","slug":"consequential-actions-podcast-7101158","podcast_index_feed_id":7101158,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/465374/s/4746.rss","website_url":"https://jeffkellick.substack.com/s/consequential-actions-podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/465374/s/4746/89d62bf29b5f4bd7e0065e8d1dd33837.jpg","author":"Jeff Kellick","episode_count":110,"summary":"A discussion on the decisions that impact security, technology, and the economy.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-06T20:17:46.793969+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158"},"episode":{"title":"The Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the English Bill of Rights","slug":"the-glorious-revolution-of-1688-and-the-english-bill-of-rights","published_at":"2026-08-22T18:03:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158/the-glorious-revolution-of-1688-and-the-english-bill-of-rights","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158","url":"https://jeffkellick.substack.com/p/the-glorious-revolution-of-1688-and","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/212313157/4408d80cac4156dd1218ddfe6ccd8512.mp3","summary":"The Invasion England Decided to Call a Revolution On the afternoon of 5 November 1688, the people of a Devon fishing village looked out at Tor Bay and could not see the water for ships. Something like four hundred and sixty of them, carrying fifteen thousand professional soldiers, their horses, their siege guns, and a printing press. It was the largest fleet to reach English shores since 1066, it had sailed the length of the Channel unopposed, and it belonged to a foreign head of state. Fourteen months later that same kingdom produced a document an American can read today and recognize in his bones. Both of those things happened. The ships and the statute. This episode puts the ships first. James II did not lose his throne because he was Catholic. England had done the arithmetic and decided to wait him out. He lost it because he claimed a power to suspend acts of Parliament altogether, made a test case of it in Godden v. Hales by dismissing six of the twelve judges of England until he had a bench that would rule the way he needed, and then, in June 1688, produced a Catholic son. This episode walks through the dispensing power, the seven bishops in the Tower, the letter seven men wrote in cipher that would have hanged every one of them, and the legal fiction the Convention built in January 1689 to remove a king it had no lawful means of removing. James had fled a foreign army at night. Parliament resolved that he had abdicated, and both the men who believed in divine right and the men who believed in consent voted for the same words for opposite reasons. What followed was real. The crown could no longer suspend a statute, dispense with one, tax without a grant, keep an army in peacetime without consent, prosecute a man for petitioning, or dismiss a judge for a verdict.…","meta_description":"The Invasion England Decided to Call a Revolution On the afternoon of 5 November 1688, the people of a Devon fishing village looked out at Tor Bay and cou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4387,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158/episodes/the-glorious-revolution-of-1688-and-the-english-bill-of-rights/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158/the-glorious-revolution-of-1688-and-the-english-bill-of-rights.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}