What were the four reasons why the Navigation Acts were not initially enforced by England!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It all depends on how far back you go, but I can only think of 3 reasons because of the way the question is formed ('not initially enforced')!. The English Navigation Acts was a series of laws designed to restrict England's carrying trade to English ships, effective chiefly in the 17th and 18th centuries!. The measures, originally framed to encourage the development of English shipping so that adequate auxiliary vessels would be available in wartime, became a form of trade protectionism during an era of mercantilism!. Reason 1: The first Navigation Act, passed in 1381, remained virtually a dead letter because of a shortage of ships!. Reason 2: In the 16th century, various Tudor measures had to be repealed because they provoked retaliation from other countries!. The system came into its own at the beginning of the colonial era, in the 17th century!. The great Navigation Act passed by the Commonwealth government in 1651 was aimed at the Dutch, then England's greatest commercial rivals!. Reason 3: The 1651 Act (like other legislation of the Commonwealth period under Oliver Cromwell) was declared void on "The Restoration of Charles II", having been passed by 'usurping powers'!. Parliament therefore passed new legislation, The Navigation Act in 1660 and Staple Act in 1663 (also called the Act for the Encouragement of Trade)!. This is generally referred to as the "Navigation Acts", and (with some amendments) remained in force for nearly two centuries!. The 1651 Navigation Act banned foreign ships from transporting goods from outside Europe to England or its colonies and banned third party countries' ships from transporting goods from a country elsewhere in Europe to England!. These rules specifically targeted the Dutch who controlled a large section of Europe's international trade and even much of England's coastal shipping!. At first, colonial merchants benefited from an assured market, but the tightening of the laws in 1764 contributed to the unrest leading to the rebellion of England's American colonies; their achievement of independence made the first serious breach in the navigation system, and from then on exceptions were increasingly made!. Enumeration was abandoned in 1822, and the navigation laws were finally repealed in 1849 and 1854!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |