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...ree or more children from the republican process of town councils and the parliament creates a question for the democratization of the governing pro...

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...ppens to a person who wants honor or power: he wants to be elected to the parliament, to become the next president, everything else is second to that...

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...noon locking through the eight flight locks at Ottawa, with the Cana- dian Parliament Buildings on one side of them and the majestic Chateau Laurier H...

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...n into account that women were present. Thinking the situation was like a parliamentary session, he began to back off. Edward and Karen boasted of t... ...ed, slapping another brother on the back that added his titbit. “I prefer parliament sessions myself. All that kicking under the tables, a sideswipe...

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...ople of their own nationality, because of the disputes between Charles and his parliament, a dissension soon to be followed by civil war in England. T... ...nto yet greater national importance. The dissensions between Charles I and his Parliament had become too violent to be settled by amicable means, and ... ...first manifested itself in the doings of Barrow, who, through his influence in Parliament, secured the offer of a reward of twenty thousand pounds for...

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....S. look like their making progress, and delivering some key votes in Italy’s Parliament for support of the NATO Alliance, the U.S. will look the oth...

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... the Mayor, the Chairman of the City Council and the Members of Thailand's Parliament elected from the province. The Buddhist service is followed by r...

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...s he conquered… including all of the civil codes of the revolutionary English Parliamentary system… have since been modified: to bring back as much c... ...abylon, to the Roman Caesars, to the Chinese Emperors, to Machiavelli, to the Parliamentary system, to the modern Washington D.C. consist of?… Elite... ...who were involved in the famous ‘Guy Fawkes’ attempt to burn down the English Parliament and restore Catholic Royal Religious Rule to England were a... ...nvading colonists in North America burned to the ground? Because the British Parliament…. which was rotten to the core with corruption did not burn... ...tion did not burn to the ground when it should have. After the fire Canada’s Parliament building in Montreal was re-located to another city. The s... ... will find that the legal equality of Bonaparte’s Civil Code; and the English Parliamentary system of representative Government are the original root... ...nd. Read English literature and history. Read the truth about their vaunted parliamentary system and democracy. Read how English nobles owned entir... ...r were on the verge of waking up. They were on the verge of burning down the parliament buildings and marching en masse: to clear England of its ri...

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...and various London street scenes including London Bridge and the houses of Parliament. There are also twelve excellent photographs of ancient subjects...

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...h that they came from beyond the sea, and the letters specified that King Arthur was slain in battle with Sir Launcelot. Wherefore Sir Mordred made a parliament, and called the lords together, and there he made them to choose him king; and so was he crowned at Canterbury, and held a feast there fifteen days; and afterward he drew him unto Winchester, and there he took the ...

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...rthur was slain in battle with Sir Launcelot. Wherefore Sir Mordred made a parliament, and called the lords together, and there he made them to choose...

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...Excerpt: That Belgium is now one of the European kingdoms, living by its own laws, resting on its own bottom, with a king and court, palaces and parliament of its own, is known to all the world. And a very nice little kingdom it is; full of old towns, fine Flemish pictures, and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ourselve...

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...r away. Although, at the time of the ‘Bloody Assizes’ he will have been much feared and hated by many.There are more to-and fro-ings in the Houses of Parliament. The Scots Covenanters make an appearance and dangerfield and Oates get their come-uppance. Macaulay paints the mid to late 17th century in a mad effervescence of colour. Summary by Jim Mowatt...

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... satirizing the frailty of faith, the fecklessness of the English aristocracy, the futility of English pastimes and the fawning of elected Members of Parliament over their middle-class constituents. Booze, banquets, belles and bishops are given the Byronic treatment, while his spleen is reserved for his critics and for tyranny. (Summary by Peter Gallagher)...

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...o Can you Forgive Her? and the second novel in Trollope's Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irishman who becomes a member of the English parliament. Trollope aspired to become an M.P. himself, and he ably describes the workings of the English political scene. There is also a love interest, as the somewhat inconstant Phineas courts three different women: his Ir...

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...tive Union of England and Ireland”, addresses the 1700s, the Goerges, the further oppresion of the Irish people, and the final dismissal of the Irish Parliament. (Summary by Sibella Denton)...

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...rious indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call... ...esentative system if the electors do not care to choose the best member of Parliament, but choose him who will spend most money to be elected? How can... ... to do their duty towards the poorer portion of their countrymen. Yet does Parliament, or almost any of the members compos ing it, ever for an instan... ...be argued, if the classes who strike were able to make themselves heard in Parliament. It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no inten tio... ... national representation (which is in substance the history of the English Parliament), the nation has then the most favorable prospects of improvemen... ...ides. By constitutional law, the crown can refuse its assent to any act of Parliament, and can appoint to office and main tain in it any minister, in... ...e and main tain in it any minister, in opposition to the remonstrances of Parliament. But the constitutional morality of the country nullifies these ... ...le for the plans and calculations on which the disbursements are grounded. Parliament, accordingly, is not expected, nor even permitted, to originate ... ...h it. The bad measures or bad appointments of a minister may be checked by Parliament; and the interest of ministers in defending, and of rival partis...

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...Excerpt: They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean endeavour, not a little altered and moved inwardly in their...

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...itica By John Milton A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND This is true liberty, when free born men, Having t... ...tates and governors of the Common wealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that wh... ...ill then see what difference there is between the magnanimity of a triennial Parliament, and that jealous haughtiness of prelates and cabin counsel l... ...ers, I could name him who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parliament of Athens, that persuades them to change the form of democracy... ... witness can ye expect I should produce, than one of your own now sitting in Parliament, the chief of learned men re puted in this land, Mr. Selden; ... ...see, not once or oftener, but weekly, that continued court libel against the Parliament and City, printed, as the wet sheets can witness, and disperse... ... doubtless took this office up, looking on it through their obedience to the Parliament, whose command perhaps made all things seem easy and unlaborio... ... tion, the same I should hear by as learned men at home, uttered in time of Parliament against an order of licens ing; and that so generally that, w... ...esses might be open; it was the people’s birthright and privilege in time of Parliament, it was the breaking forth of light. But now, the bishops abro...

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...rce [Under Authoriry of Acts of Congress). 1646). 4th scr. (A Documentary History of the English Colonies in North America from the long's Message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774, to the Declaration of Independence, by the United States), vol. 6, pp. 614-15. Misspellings are in original....

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...A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Order of 1643, noting that such censorship had never been a part of classical Greek and Roman society. The tract is full of biblical and classical references which Milton us...