A Short History of ParliamentHarper, 1887 - 345 páginas |
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... royal family generally the late king's younger brother . The rights of the Witan tended to become pure formal- ism after the Conquest , for the Norman kings were practi- cally absolute , and they legislated , taxed , and ruled at pleas ...
... royal family generally the late king's younger brother . The rights of the Witan tended to become pure formal- ism after the Conquest , for the Norman kings were practi- cally absolute , and they legislated , taxed , and ruled at pleas ...
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... royal power was not absolute , but limited by custom and the ! rights of the people . This document is known as Magna Carta . The clauses dealing with the National Council were not , however , very extensive in scope . One of them ...
... royal power was not absolute , but limited by custom and the ! rights of the people . This document is known as Magna Carta . The clauses dealing with the National Council were not , however , very extensive in scope . One of them ...
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... royal pleasure , the latter striving to maintain the modern theory , that it could not be levied without the consent of the National Council , and yet yielding again and again to the insatiate demands of the king . At last , how- ever ...
... royal pleasure , the latter striving to maintain the modern theory , that it could not be levied without the consent of the National Council , and yet yielding again and again to the insatiate demands of the king . At last , how- ever ...
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... royal will . Above all , it was felt that he could be trusted , that he would remain firm to the very death in the course he had chosen , that not all the terrors of this world or the next would turn him from his plighted word . It was ...
... royal will . Above all , it was felt that he could be trusted , that he would remain firm to the very death in the course he had chosen , that not all the terrors of this world or the next would turn him from his plighted word . It was ...
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... royal army at Lewes , May 14 , 1264 , which gave the king into his hands as a prisoner , and made him master of the kingdom . A new scheme of government was at once drawn up , with the assistance of a Parliament assembled at London , at ...
... royal army at Lewes , May 14 , 1264 , which gave the king into his hands as a prisoner , and made him master of the kingdom . A new scheme of government was at once drawn up , with the assistance of a Parliament assembled at London , at ...
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Adullamites asserted became bishops boroughs brought Burke Cabinet carried Catholic Charles Church clause Cloth consent consequence constitutional corruption Court Crown debate declared Disraeli Duke Earl election England English fact favor franchise George George III Gladstone Half Calf Henry House of Commons House of Lords illegal impeachment important influence Irish king king's leaders legislative liament Long Parliament Lord John Russell Lord North Lord Palmerston majority matter measure ment Ministry mons moreover nation naturally once opinion opposition Palmerston Parlia Parliament parliamentary party passed Peel peers petitions Pitt political prerogative principle privilege Protestant queen question Reform Bill refused regarded reign result Revolution Richard Strode royal seat sent session Sir Robert Peel Sir Stafford Northcote Speaker speech statute Strafford summoned throne tion Tory views vote Walpole Warren Hastings Whigs whole Witan
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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...