History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... ideas and friends with whom I had been asso- ciated were , at that period , removed from the head of affairs . I connected myself with their reverses , without abandoning our common hopes and efforts . We had faith in our insti- tutions ...
... ideas and friends with whom I had been asso- ciated were , at that period , removed from the head of affairs . I connected myself with their reverses , without abandoning our common hopes and efforts . We had faith in our insti- tutions ...
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... idea , the national desire of France , in 1789 , was the alliance of free institutions with hereditary monarchy . We have been carried far away from our design ; we have immensely deceived ourselves and gone astray in our presumptuous ...
... idea , the national desire of France , in 1789 , was the alliance of free institutions with hereditary monarchy . We have been carried far away from our design ; we have immensely deceived ourselves and gone astray in our presumptuous ...
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... ideas which I have expressed in reference to some of the conditions and forms of representative government . This system of government has no unique and solely good type , in conformity to which it must necessarily and universally be ...
... ideas which I have expressed in reference to some of the conditions and forms of representative government . This system of government has no unique and solely good type , in conformity to which it must necessarily and universally be ...
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... idea that the sovereignty belongs to the majority . True idea of representation . 334 LECTURE XI . • Formation of a Parliament . - Introduction of county deputies into the Parliament . - Relations of the county deputies to the great ...
... idea that the sovereignty belongs to the majority . True idea of representation . 334 LECTURE XI . • Formation of a Parliament . - Introduction of county deputies into the Parliament . - Relations of the county deputies to the great ...
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... ideas , other feel- ings , are called up by the same names and the same narra- tives ; and man thus learns that in the infinitude of space opened to his knowledge , everything remains constantly fresh and inexhaustible , in regard to ...
... ideas , other feel- ings , are called up by the same names and the same narra- tives ; and man thus learns that in the infinitude of space opened to his knowledge , everything remains constantly fresh and inexhaustible , in regard to ...
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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.