The English Bill of Rights was Parliament's response to James II absolutism. The bill contained provisions that limited king's power. It also ensured that catholics could never become monarchs of England.
The Bill of Rights is a document written in England in 1689 as a result of the Glorious Revolution, which imposed the English Parliament on Prince William of Orange to succeed King James II.
The main purpose of this text was to recover and strengthen certain parliamentary faculties that were already disappeared or notoriously diminished during the absolutist reign of the Stuarts.
The Bill of Rights of 1689, the Exclusion Act of Catholics in favor of the Stuarts of 1701 and the Act of Union of England and Scotland of 1707 ensured the triumph of a moderate and Protestant monarchy in the new United Kingdom of Great Britain.