History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... Necessity of inquiring into the political sense of the word repre- sentation at the time when a representative government began to be formed . - Mistaken theories on this subject . - Rousseau's theory , which denies representation and ...
... Necessity of inquiring into the political sense of the word repre- sentation at the time when a representative government began to be formed . - Mistaken theories on this subject . - Rousseau's theory , which denies representation and ...
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... Necessity for representative government to be complete . - Artifices and abuses engendered by the right of petition . 463 · • LECTURE XXII . · Condition of the Parliament under Edward III . - Progress of the power of the Commons . Their ...
... Necessity for representative government to be complete . - Artifices and abuses engendered by the right of petition . 463 · • LECTURE XXII . · Condition of the Parliament under Edward III . - Progress of the power of the Commons . Their ...
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... necessity of bringing our habits into asso- ciation with intelligent feeling , to connect our institutions with our recollections , and , in fine , to gather together the links in that chain of time , which never allows itself to be ...
... necessity of bringing our habits into asso- ciation with intelligent feeling , to connect our institutions with our recollections , and , in fine , to gather together the links in that chain of time , which never allows itself to be ...
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... necessity for me , gentlemen , to offer any very serious opposition to this fantastic and superstitious adora- tion of the past . It would hardly have merited even a passing allusion , were it not connected with systems and tendencies ...
... necessity for me , gentlemen , to offer any very serious opposition to this fantastic and superstitious adora- tion of the past . It would hardly have merited even a passing allusion , were it not connected with systems and tendencies ...
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... that freedom requires from the man who would enjoy it a sterner exercise of his powers . We know that it allows neither indolence of soul nor fickeness of mind , and that 20 NECESSITY OF HARD STUDY . those generations which devote © 2.
... that freedom requires from the man who would enjoy it a sterner exercise of his powers . We know that it allows neither indolence of soul nor fickeness of mind , and that 20 NECESSITY OF HARD STUDY . those generations which devote © 2.
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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.