Although in Britain's Constitutional System the Monarch Ruled with Parliament

Multiple Choice

Although in Britain's constitutional system the monarch ruled with Parliament, power was still contained within a very small elite in the eighteenth century. What was the reason for this?

A) The middle and lower classes had little interest in politics, as they were more concerned with the new consumer revolution.
B) Only a few hundred thousand propertied men could vote, and most members of Parliament came from the landed gentry.
C) Both Protestant and Catholic churches encouraged believers to stay out of politics to avoid rekindling the conflicts that had fed the English civil war.
D) Since so small a percentage of the population was literate at that time, even those who wanted to engage in politics had little means to do so.