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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... stood equal ; they were bound together in families in such a way that if one underwent an injury , all his kin lay under obligation to exact rep- aration ; as also they lay under obligation to afford reparation , if one of their number ...
... stood equal ; they were bound together in families in such a way that if one underwent an injury , all his kin lay under obligation to exact rep- aration ; as also they lay under obligation to afford reparation , if one of their number ...
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... stood the eorl , atheling , or noble , who , how- ever , had no station apart from the ceorl . He was simply the man descended from the first settler , or the man set apart " because the blood that ran in the veins of all was believed ...
... stood the eorl , atheling , or noble , who , how- ever , had no station apart from the ceorl . He was simply the man descended from the first settler , or the man set apart " because the blood that ran in the veins of all was believed ...
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... stood on the beach at Hastings , a watering - place of some fashion on the south coast of England . It was Hastings . a slope covered with rough shingle , close upon one edge of which crowded the blocks of the modern town , and on the ...
... stood on the beach at Hastings , a watering - place of some fashion on the south coast of England . It was Hastings . a slope covered with rough shingle , close upon one edge of which crowded the blocks of the modern town , and on the ...
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... stood then on the shore looking southward through precisely such Septem- the Normans ber mist upon a motionless sea , I should have seen countless sails floating up in the offing ; and , in the front of the fleet , an ornamented bark ...
... stood then on the shore looking southward through precisely such Septem- the Normans ber mist upon a motionless sea , I should have seen countless sails floating up in the offing ; and , in the front of the fleet , an ornamented bark ...
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... stood on the beach at Hastings , a watering - place of some fashion on the south coast of England . It was Hastings . a slope covered with rough shingle , close upon one edge of which crowded the blocks of the modern town , and on the ...
... stood on the beach at Hastings , a watering - place of some fashion on the south coast of England . It was Hastings . a slope covered with rough shingle , close upon one edge of which crowded the blocks of the modern town , and on 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.