History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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Page viii
... liberty more than one way of entering into governments : and it would be foolishly to reduce their chances of success if we condemned them to appear always with the same lineaments , and to develope themselves by the same means . One ...
... liberty more than one way of entering into governments : and it would be foolishly to reduce their chances of success if we condemned them to appear always with the same lineaments , and to develope themselves by the same means . One ...
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... liberty more than one way of entering into governments : and it would be foolishly to reduce their chances of success if we condemned them to appear always with the same lineaments , and to develope themselves by the same means . One ...
... liberty more than one way of entering into governments : and it would be foolishly to reduce their chances of success if we condemned them to appear always with the same lineaments , and to develope themselves by the same means . One ...
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... Liberty of speech in both Houses . - Inviolability of members of Parliament . - Judicial power of the House of Lords . - Deca- dence of the Parliament during the wars of the Roses , and under the Tudor dynasty . - Causes of this ...
... Liberty of speech in both Houses . - Inviolability of members of Parliament . - Judicial power of the House of Lords . - Deca- dence of the Parliament during the wars of the Roses , and under the Tudor dynasty . - Causes of this ...
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... liberty , all that makes society dignified and secure , were a discovery of to - day , made by the generation which has last appeared . In thus renouncing its ancestors , this generation forgets that it will soon join them in the tomb ...
... liberty , all that makes society dignified and secure , were a discovery of to - day , made by the generation which has last appeared . In thus renouncing its ancestors , this generation forgets that it will soon join them in the tomb ...
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... liberty then meant only personal independence and isolation , struggled to preserve it . Those who were strong succeeded in obtaining it , and became powerful ; - those who were weak lost it and fell under the yoke of the powerful . The ...
... liberty then meant only personal independence and isolation , struggled to preserve it . Those who were strong succeeded in obtaining it , and became powerful ; - those who were weak lost it and fell under the yoke of the powerful . The ...
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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.