History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... direct or indirect election LECTURE XVII . Origin of the division of the English Parliament into two Houses . -Its original constitution . - Reproduction of the classifications of society in the Parliament . — Causes which led the ...
... direct or indirect election LECTURE XVII . Origin of the division of the English Parliament into two Houses . -Its original constitution . - Reproduction of the classifications of society in the Parliament . — Causes which led the ...
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... direct effort to produce it , -there we shall not linger . All forms and conditions of society present rich and curious subjects for observation ; but in this inexhaustible series of facts we must choose only those which have a strict ...
... direct effort to produce it , -there we shall not linger . All forms and conditions of society present rich and curious subjects for observation ; but in this inexhaustible series of facts we must choose only those which have a strict ...
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... direct our attention experienced a harder lot ; they more than once beheld despotism root itself deeply in its position , and at the same time saw injustice assert its claim to a lasting rule . We , gentlemen , who have seen so many and ...
... direct our attention experienced a harder lot ; they more than once beheld despotism root itself deeply in its position , and at the same time saw injustice assert its claim to a lasting rule . We , gentlemen , who have seen so many and ...
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... direct influence upon the government . It was , then , among the Anglo - Saxons , that , from the fifth to the eleventh century , institutions received the most natural and complete development . This fact has induced me to commence our ...
... direct influence upon the government . It was , then , among the Anglo - Saxons , that , from the fifth to the eleventh century , institutions received the most natural and complete development . This fact has induced me to commence our ...
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... direct and frequent influence upon the governed , would have been to them a useless and fatiguing burden . It devolved upon the kings to compel them , as it were , to keep up their old institutions . Athelstane ordained that the county ...
... direct and frequent influence upon the governed , would have been to them a useless and fatiguing burden . It devolved upon the kings to compel them , as it were , to keep up their old institutions . Athelstane ordained that the county ...
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Page 366 - I. Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Guyan, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting. Know ye that we to the honour of God and of holy Church, and to the profit of our realm, have granted for us and our heirs, that the Charter of Liberties and the Charter of the Forest, which were made by common assent of all the realm, in the time of King Henry our father, shall be kept in every point without breach.