WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Commons was a body of “commoners” (non-nobles) in Parliament. In 1295, King Edward called what later was dubbed the “Model Parliament.” It included knights and burgesses and began the practice of including the Commons on a fairly regular basis.

Detailed explanation-2: -Model Parliament The next time the burgesses were summoned along with the knights of the shire was in 1295. This was to become known as the Model Parliament, because its representation of two knights from each county and two burgesses from each town became normal for (almost) all future Parliaments.

Detailed explanation-3: -Henry VIII’s Reformation Parliament, which sat from 1529 to 1536, fundamentally changed the nature of Parliament and of English government. The King summoned it in order to settle what was called his ‘great matter’, his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, which the Papacy in Rome was blocking.

Detailed explanation-4: -Model Parliament, parliament called by King Edward I of England in 1295 that is widely regarded as the first representative parliament.

Detailed explanation-5: -Nobody set out to create Parliament. It developed naturally out of the daily political needs of the English King and his government. Nor did it develop continuously over time, but went through short periods of rapid growth.