In the glorious revolution of 1688, parliament asserted its authority by offering leadership
a) a new king and queen
b) the judical branch
c) powerful generals
d) the clergy

I believe the answer is: A) A new king and queen

By doing this, the parliament has establish two different things. The first one is that their  body, which is consisted of the representation of the common, had the power to create new legislation. The second one is that no person is untouchables by law, even the King and Queen, which is why the nobles have to start to control their behaviour and abide to the law.

i think its the outcome of people's preferences.

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.