The Bill of Rights is one of the foundations of the political order of Britain, achieved in the wake of the Glorious Revolution of 1688/1689, that made the kingdom a constitutional monarchy and Parliament the center of gravity of British politics [4]. Contrary to the impression created by the history of its reception, it was not a piece of programmatic legislation like the French declarations of human/citizens’ rights of 1789; rather, it was, as the text itself claimed, the assertion of a constitutional position that had already been in place until James II/VII had undermined it. When the C…