An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution, from the reign of Henry VII. to the present timeLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1865 |
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... question whether this manner of making gentlemen is to be allowed or no ; and for my part I am of that opinion , that it is not amiss . For , first , the prince loseth nothing by it , as he should do , if it were as in France : for the ...
... question whether this manner of making gentlemen is to be allowed or no ; and for my part I am of that opinion , that it is not amiss . For , first , the prince loseth nothing by it , as he should do , if it were as in France : for the ...
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... questions . But this is a complete mistake . Slaves , it is true , had nothing to do with political functions , but the poorest arti- sans , who were free , had a voice in the public coun- cils . The manner in which their votes were to ...
... questions . But this is a complete mistake . Slaves , it is true , had nothing to do with political functions , but the poorest arti- sans , who were free , had a voice in the public coun- cils . The manner in which their votes were to ...
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... A few years afterwards he procured a law to be passed , declaring that no one should be called in question for obeying a king de facto . He thus quieted the minds of his subjects , and added 12 CHAPTER II HENRY THE SEVENTH.
... A few years afterwards he procured a law to be passed , declaring that no one should be called in question for obeying a king de facto . He thus quieted the minds of his subjects , and added 12 CHAPTER II HENRY THE SEVENTH.
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... question regularly granted by Parliament , in the first year of the reign * . * Statutes 1 Edw . VI . c.13 , 1 Mary , st . 2 , c . 18 , 1 Eliz . c . 20 , 1 James , c . 33. By all these Acts , tonnage and poundage are granted for life ...
... question regularly granted by Parliament , in the first year of the reign * . * Statutes 1 Edw . VI . c.13 , 1 Mary , st . 2 , c . 18 , 1 Eliz . c . 20 , 1 James , c . 33. By all these Acts , tonnage and poundage are granted for life ...
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... question of privilege : He first commended their wisdom in maintaining the privileges of their House ; which he would not have infringed in any point . He alleged that he , being at the head of the Parliament , and attending in his own ...
... question of privilege : He first commended their wisdom in maintaining the privileges of their House ; which he would not have infringed in any point . He alleged that he , being at the head of the Parliament , and attending in his own ...
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