A Short History of ParliamentHarper, 1887 - 345 páginas |
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... representative assemblies on the Continent ; but they have sprung full - grown from the heads of their creators , they are in no sense the result of natural develop- ment , and in most cases they were directly borrowed , with suitable ...
... representative assemblies on the Continent ; but they have sprung full - grown from the heads of their creators , they are in no sense the result of natural develop- ment , and in most cases they were directly borrowed , with suitable ...
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... representatives of the counties were present . The supreme power was still to reside in the king , but he was to ... representative system had long been in use in the local courts of the shires and hundreds for the transaction of ...
... representatives of the counties were present . The supreme power was still to reside in the king , but he was to ... representative system had long been in use in the local courts of the shires and hundreds for the transaction of ...
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... representative council on the model of that assembled by Earl Simon in 1265 , though the exact form was as yet a matter of considerable uncertainty . Thus it is evident that it depended in no small measure on the charac- ter of the king ...
... representative council on the model of that assembled by Earl Simon in 1265 , though the exact form was as yet a matter of considerable uncertainty . Thus it is evident that it depended in no small measure on the charac- ter of the king ...
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... representatives from the country to speak in the name of the people and grant him money . This tardy awakening was due to the ... representative National Council . The result was , that between 1282 and 1294 , Edward devised a variety of ...
... representatives from the country to speak in the name of the people and grant him money . This tardy awakening was due to the ... representative National Council . The result was , that between 1282 and 1294 , Edward devised a variety of ...
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... representatives apiece from twenty - one specified cities and boroughs ; the representatives of the lower clergy were not summoned on this occasion . In 1290 a purely feu- dal assembly of bishops and barons was summoned to impose an aid ...
... representatives apiece from twenty - one specified cities and boroughs ; the representatives of the lower clergy were not summoned on this occasion . In 1290 a purely feu- dal assembly of bishops and barons was summoned to impose an aid ...
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Página 99 - May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Página 187 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Página 238 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. ' I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored.
Página 187 - I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience. " Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining ; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided.
Página 99 - since I see all the birds are flown, I do expect from you that you shall send them unto me as soon as they return hither. But I assure you, on the word of a King, I never did intend any force, but shall proceed against them in a legal and fair way, for I never meant any other.
Página 133 - And yet this revolution, of all revolutions the least violent, has been, of all revolutions, the most beneficent. It finally decided the great question whether the popular element which had, ever since the age of Fitzwalter and De Montfort, been found in the English polity, should be destroyed by the monarchical element, or should be suffered to develop itself freely, and to become dominant.
Página 226 - This resistance to your arbitrary system of taxation might have been foreseen : it was obvious from the nature of things, and of mankind ; and above all, from the whiggish spirit flourishing in that country. The spirit which now resists your taxation in America, is the same which formerly opposed loans, benevolences, and ship-money in...