Which sentence describes an effect of the English civil war?

a) the monarchy grew more powerful

b) Louis XIV ruled France

c) people began to ask questions about the best way to govern

d) Parliament was permanently dissolved

That would be C.

The overall outcome of the war was threefold: the trial and execution of Charles I (1649); the exile of his son, Charles II (1651); and the replacement of English monarchy with, at first, the Commonwealth of England (1649-1653) and then the Protectorate under the personal rule of Oliver Cromwell (1653-1658) and subsequently his son Richard (1658-1659). The monopoly of the Church of England on Christian worship in England ended with the victors' consolidating the established Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. Constitutionally, the wars established the precedent that an English monarch cannot govern without Parliament 's consent, although the idea of Parliament as the ruling power of England was only legally established as part of the Glorious Revolution in 1688