What actions of the Restoration Stuart kings led to the glorious revolution?

Question

What actions of the Restoration Stuart kings led to the glorious revolution?

Answer 1

The English have always looked upon Catholics with suspicion and were somewhat intolerant to adherents of that faith. While James II, who was Catholic indeed, was allowed to inherit his older brother's throne, his heirs at the time were his Protestant-raised daughters from Anne Hyde, Mary and Anne. At James II accession, he had an Catholic Italian wife named Mary of Modena, however, she was not able to produce a male heir or for that matter any child who survived, in their 12 years of marriage. But in 1688, the Queen finally gave birth to a son, James Francis Edward Stuart (old pretender). This was a great deal because the child will be brought up as a Catholic. Since the English did not want to go back to being a Catholic (think Bloody Mary, Spanish, and French) so they persuaded James' elder daughter Mary and her husband William to usurp the throne, which resulted in the Glorious Revolution. James II fled from England along with his wife and infant son, and Mary and William were both crowned as co-rulers of England.

Answer 2

The immediate cause was the birth of a male heir to James II; the child

would be raised as a Roman Catholic and, in time, inherit the throne.  

That would have been philosophically and economically insufferable.