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The English Revolution or as it is also referred to English Civil War began in 1642 in England under the rule of Charles I. The war began due to a conflict began Charles and the Parliament. Many other causes for the revolution are attributed to many social, economic, constitutional, and religious developments over the last century. The more important constitutional issue in the war was between a king who claimed to rule by divine right and a Parliament that claimed the right to govern the nation independent of the crown. Divine Right is a concept that monarchs are Godson earth and therefore are answerable only to god. At the time Charles had just come from Scotland, where he and his family, the Stuarts, had ruled. In Scotland Charles had complete control over all decisions made about the kingdom and the monarchy, now he was being told, by a non-monarch Parliament what to do and what kind of policy to dictate. Charles thought the parliament unfair and improper. He was in charge, not a group of non-monarchs. That immediate cause sparked parliaments protests, which occurred in 1637 when Charles tried to impose the Anglican liturgy of Scotland into a very Presbyterian society. The Presbyterians almost immediately rioted and then sign