A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom: The Polity of the English-speaking Race. Outlined in Its Inception, Development, Diffusion and Present ConditionC. Scribner's sons, 1890 - 420 páginas |
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... possessed the runic alphabet , and showed in dress and arms an appreciation of the beautiful . The freeman in times that soon follow wore a smock- frock of coarse linen or wool falling to his knees , identical almost with that of the ...
... possessed the runic alphabet , and showed in dress and arms an appreciation of the beautiful . The freeman in times that soon follow wore a smock- frock of coarse linen or wool falling to his knees , identical almost with that of the ...
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... possessed all substantial power ; the unit of the political body was the tun - scipe , township ; and this , whether it was a settlement of kindred coloniz- ing on their own account , or the estate of some rich man occupied by a body of ...
... possessed all substantial power ; the unit of the political body was the tun - scipe , township ; and this , whether it was a settlement of kindred coloniz- ing on their own account , or the estate of some rich man occupied by a body of ...
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... possessed no authority 1 In the constitutional sketch , Stubbs at present is mainly followed , with side - lights , however , from a number of other authorities . but such as was accorded them by their fellow - 18 ANGLO - SAXON FREEDOM .
... possessed no authority 1 In the constitutional sketch , Stubbs at present is mainly followed , with side - lights , however , from a number of other authorities . but such as was accorded them by their fellow - 18 ANGLO - SAXON FREEDOM .
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... possessed no authority 1 In the constitutional sketch , Stubbs at present is mainly followed , with side - lights , however , from a number of other authorities . but such as was accorded them by their fellow - 18 ANGLO - SAXON FREEDOM .
... possessed no authority 1 In the constitutional sketch , Stubbs at present is mainly followed , with side - lights , however , from a number of other authorities . but such as was accorded them by their fellow - 18 ANGLO - SAXON FREEDOM .
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... possessed all the power once . It disappeared as regards central government , living on under the surface , as we have seen , in the various moots for local self - government . The witenagemote , indeed , may have arisen from the ...
... possessed all the power once . It disappeared as regards central government , living on under the surface , as we have seen , in the various moots for local self - government . The witenagemote , indeed , may have arisen from the ...
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American ancient Anglo Anglo-Saxon freedom army Barons became become body boroughs Britain British Bryce cause century ceorls charters Church cities citizen civilization colonies Commonwealth Constitution of Canada Constitutional History council Court declared democracy Edward elected electors England England Towns English Constitution English-speaking estates Federal feudalism folk-moot France freeman French George George III hands Henry VIII House of Commons hundred idea important institutions John justice King knights knights-of-the-shire land Lecky legislative legislature liament liberty Lords Magna Charta ment nation nobles Norman Parliament passed plain political Popular Government popular moot population possessed present President primordial cell Prince race regards representation representative Revolution Samuel Adams Saxon says scarcely self-government shire shire-moot Sir Henry Maine South Sovereign stood supreme thegns things Thirteen Colonies tion Tories town town-meeting township United vigorous village villeins vote Wat Tyler Westminster Whigs William witan witenagemote yeomen
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Página 248 - I AB do swear, That I do from my heart, abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Página 245 - Majesty that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of Parliament.
Página 249 - Such classes of subjects as are expressly excepted in the enumeration of the classes of subjects by this act assigned exclusively to the legislatures of the provinces.
Página 154 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
Página 245 - And whereas of late great companies of soldiers and mariners have been dispersed into divers counties of the realm, and the inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and customs of this realm and to the great grievance and vexation of the people.
Página 187 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.
Página 245 - Whereas the late king James the Second by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom.
Página 71 - It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; good Christians content themselves with his will revealed in his Word; so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do; or to say that a king cannot do this or that; but rest in that which is the king's will revealed in his law.
Página 159 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página xxii - There is no difficulty in showing that the ideally best form of government is that in which the sovereignty, or supreme controlling power in the last resort, is vested in the entire aggregate of the community ; every citizen not only having a voice in the exercise of that ultimate sovereignty, but being, at least occasionally, called on to take an actual part in the government, by the personal discharge of some public function, local or general.