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Rump Parliament

noun English History.

the remnant of the Long Parliament established by the expulsion of the Presbyterian members in 1648, dismissed by force in 1653, and restored briefly in 1659–60.

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Rump Parliament or the Rump

—n
	English history the remainder of the Long Parliament after Pride's Purge. It sat from 1648--53

the Rump or the Rump

—n

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"I have seen in this revolution a circular motion of the sovereign power through two usurpers, father and son, to the late King to this his son. For ... it moved from King Charles I to the Long Parliament; from thence to the Rump; from the Rump to Oliver Cromwell; and then back again from Richard Cromwell to the Rump; then to the Long Parliament; and thence to King Charles, where long may it remain."

-Thomas Hobbes

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