History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... respect to evils and dangers so prodigiously unequal . In truth , the trials of 1820 were severe and painful , yet the State was not thrown into con- fusion by them , and they were followed by ten years of regular and free government ...
... respect to evils and dangers so prodigiously unequal . In truth , the trials of 1820 were severe and painful , yet the State was not thrown into con- fusion by them , and they were followed by ten years of regular and free government ...
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... respect to the origin of the representative system . Necessary correlation and simultaneous formation of society and government . - Rousseau's mistaken hypothesis of the social contract . - The nature of rightful sovereignty . - Con ...
... respect to the origin of the representative system . Necessary correlation and simultaneous formation of society and government . - Rousseau's mistaken hypothesis of the social contract . - The nature of rightful sovereignty . - Con ...
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... respect to the king : Second , the tabularii , enfranchised with respect to the church : Third , the chartularii , enfranchised by a charter.- Different consequences resulting from these different modes of enfranchisement . • xiii Page ...
... respect to the king : Second , the tabularii , enfranchised with respect to the church : Third , the chartularii , enfranchised by a charter.- Different consequences resulting from these different modes of enfranchisement . • xiii Page ...
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... respects , from different sides . Sometimes it is by religious ideas , sometimes by political ideas , sometimes by a simple discovery , or a mechanical invention , that the world is ruled and changed . The apparent metamorphosis which ...
... respects , from different sides . Sometimes it is by religious ideas , sometimes by political ideas , sometimes by a simple discovery , or a mechanical invention , that the world is ruled and changed . The apparent metamorphosis which ...
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... respect of its descendants . There is not one which has not borne its part in the grand struggle between good and evil , truth and error , liberty and oppression . And not only has each age maintained this laborious struggle on its own ...
... respect of its descendants . There is not one which has not borne its part in the grand struggle between good and evil , truth and error , liberty and oppression . And not only has each age maintained this laborious struggle on its own ...
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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.