An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown. It is often called the English Bill of RightsIn response to policies that threatened to restore Catholicism in England，Parliament deposed King James II and called William of Orange from the Dutch Republic and his wife Mary，who was James’s Protestant daughter，to replace him. William and Mary agreed to the Bill of Rights presented to them by Parliament，thereby acknowledging that their power came from