The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: The making of the constitutionHoughton, Mifflin, 1889 |
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Página v
... existence . In that way the English nation has been able to hand down the representa- tive principle from the barbarian epoch to modern times ; in that way England has become the " mother of parliaments , " - the teacher of the science ...
... existence . In that way the English nation has been able to hand down the representa- tive principle from the barbarian epoch to modern times ; in that way England has become the " mother of parliaments , " - the teacher of the science ...
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... existence came to an end in the reign of Edward I. , it can hardly be maintained that its structure was complete in any full and perfect sense until its vital organ , the parliament , had developed all of its powers and privileges , a ...
... existence came to an end in the reign of Edward I. , it can hardly be maintained that its structure was complete in any full and perfect sense until its vital organ , the parliament , had developed all of its powers and privileges , a ...
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... existence of the Roman Empire the key to mediæval history Dante and St. Thomas as disputants ; medieval claim of papal supremacy as re- stated by Cardinal Manning ; the papal supremacy naturally assumed a feudal shape • John refused to ...
... existence of the Roman Empire the key to mediæval history Dante and St. Thomas as disputants ; medieval claim of papal supremacy as re- stated by Cardinal Manning ; the papal supremacy naturally assumed a feudal shape • John refused to ...
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... existence . as the an- cient city- wealth . 2. A great French orator has said that " words are The state things , " and to this the philologist may add , that , like all other human things , they are subject to the endless variations ...
... existence . as the an- cient city- wealth . 2. A great French orator has said that " words are The state things , " and to this the philologist may add , that , like all other human things , they are subject to the endless variations ...
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... existence . In order clearly to contrast the ancient conception of the state with that which exists in modern times , it will be necessary to utilize the re- sults of recent research into the early history of political in- stitutions ...
... existence . In order clearly to contrast the ancient conception of the state with that which exists in modern times , it will be necessary to utilize the re- sults of recent research into the early history of political in- stitutions ...
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A. S. Law administration Ælfred Æthelstan ancient Bæda barons became bishops body Britain century Cerdic Chron church Cnut colonies Cong Conq conquerors conquest Const constitution council court baron court leet crown curia curia regis Danegeld Digby district Eadgar Eadward ealdorman Ecgberht elected English nation Essays in A. S. estates existence federal feudal finally folkland Freeman Gaul grant growth Henry heptarchic Hist hundred court Ibid judicial jurisdiction jury justice Kemble king king's kingdom kingship land Law of Real legislative lord manor ment Mercia national assembly Norm Norman Norman conquest Northumbria Old-English organization origin parish parliament political possessed primitive principle Real Property reign represented Roman royal Saxons in Eng Saxons in England Select Charters settlements sheriff shire Stubbs summoned Tacitus tenants tenure Teutonic thegns tion tive town township trial union vested village village-community Wessex West Saxons whole William witan witenagemot writ
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Página 75 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Página 17 - This principle was, that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Página 57 - We are convinced policy and justice require that a country unsettled at the commencement of this war, claimed by the British crown, and ceded to it by the treaty of Paris, if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen states, should be considered as a common property, subject to be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient and independent governments, in such manner and at such times as the wisdom of that assembly shall hereafter direct.
Página 384 - ... to ransom his body, and to make his eldest son a knight, and once to marry his eldest daughter; and for this there shall be only paid a reasonable aid.
Página 408 - It shall not be lawful from henceforth to any to give his lands to any religious house, and to take the same land again to hold of the same house. Nor shall it be lawful to any house of religion to take the lands of any, and to lease the...
Página 82 - At the end of the fourth century, and the beginning of the fifth, Christianity was no longer a simple belief, it was an institution — it had formed itself into a corporate body.
Página 265 - So very narrowly he caused it to be " traced out, that there was not a single hide, nor one virgate of land, nor even, " it is shame to tell. though it seemed to him no shame to do, an ox, nor a cow, " nor a swine was left, that was not set down.
Página 561 - But it is much otherwise with a king whose government is political, because he can neither make any alteration or change in the laws of the realm without the consent of the...
Página 519 - For, as every court of justice hath laws and customs for its direction, some the civil and canon, some the common law, others their own peculiar laws and customs, so the high court of parliament hath also its own peculiar law, called the lex et consuetude parliamenii : a law which sir Edward Coke (n) observes is, " ab omnibus quaerenda, u mullís ignorata, a paucis
Página 63 - The British Constitution was to Montesquieu what Homer has been to the didactic writers on epic poetry. As the latter have considered the work of the immortal bard as the perfect model from which the principles and rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged, so this great political critic appears to have viewed the Constitution of England as thei standard, or, to use his own expression, as the mirror of political liberty, and to have delivered in the...