History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... municipal magis- tracies and offices . Of the Defender in cities . Comparison of the development of the municipal system , and its relations to the central organization of the State in the Roman Empire and in modern societies . - 171 ...
... municipal magis- tracies and offices . Of the Defender in cities . Comparison of the development of the municipal system , and its relations to the central organization of the State in the Roman Empire and in modern societies . - 171 ...
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... municipalities , and continued to appoint their own magistrates . Several towns in Spain , while the country was under the dominion of the Visigoths , received their civic rulers from Constantinople . The empe- rors , though daily ...
... municipalities , and continued to appoint their own magistrates . Several towns in Spain , while the country was under the dominion of the Visigoths , received their civic rulers from Constantinople . The empe- rors , though daily ...
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... municipal officers . Such is a summary of the local institutions which , under the Anglo - Saxon monarchy , maintained the internal order of the state , and constituted the safeguards of public liberty . Vigorous institutions were they ...
... municipal officers . Such is a summary of the local institutions which , under the Anglo - Saxon monarchy , maintained the internal order of the state , and constituted the safeguards of public liberty . Vigorous institutions were they ...
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... municipal system.- . Three epochs in that history . IN conformity to the plan which I sketched out for our guidance at the commencement of these lectures , I have studied with you the political institutions of the Anglo- Saxons and ...
... municipal system.- . Three epochs in that history . IN conformity to the plan which I sketched out for our guidance at the commencement of these lectures , I have studied with you the political institutions of the Anglo- Saxons and ...
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... municipal system and its vicissitudes until the period of the great Barbarian invasions , in order properly to understand the condition of the urban populations at that epoch , and the part which their clergy played in their new ...
... municipal system and its vicissitudes until the period of the great Barbarian invasions , in order properly to understand the condition of the urban populations at that epoch , and the part which their clergy played in their new ...
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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.