King John of England signed the Magna Carta in 1215. The Magna Carta limited the King's powers and protected the rights of the citizens.
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1215 was Magna Carta, signed at Runnymede by King John.
William and Mary succeded to the throne in 1689, and would have signed the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights (obviously, not the same one as the American one, but it has the same name.)
William and Mary were invited to England to help overthrow the King James II. They accepted because they were both protestant and the people of England wanted a protestant monarch rather than the Catholic monarch they would have if James II's son and Mary's younger brother grew up and took the throne. William and Mary also wanted to rule England as protestant monarchs.
William and Mary were offered the throne of England to rule as part of a constitutional monarchy. During William and Mary's reign, parliament had more power whereas before the Glorious Revolution the monarch had the most power.
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The Glorious Revolution overthrew King James II and brought King William III to the throne of England. James II