The Development of Parliament During the Nineteenth CenturyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1895 - 183 pages |
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... But , as they were care- ful to explain , it was never their idea to accept 1 See the examples given by Russell in the same work . 2 either wealth or population as a sole and sufficient 20 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
... But , as they were care- ful to explain , it was never their idea to accept 1 See the examples given by Russell in the same work . 2 either wealth or population as a sole and sufficient 20 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
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... ideas . 2 One thing is clear to begin with . Whatever 1 The Court of Common Council of the City of London presented a petition to that effect . See the account by Francis Place preserved in the British Museum , Add . MS . 27793 , f . 29 ...
... ideas . 2 One thing is clear to begin with . Whatever 1 The Court of Common Council of the City of London presented a petition to that effect . See the account by Francis Place preserved in the British Museum , Add . MS . 27793 , f . 29 ...
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... idea of the middle - class reformers that the House of Commons had once been a popular assembly . They knew that every freeholder , previous to the year 1430 , had been entitled to vote for the mem- bers of the shires ; this they ...
... idea of the middle - class reformers that the House of Commons had once been a popular assembly . They knew that every freeholder , previous to the year 1430 , had been entitled to vote for the mem- bers of the shires ; this they ...
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... ideas , it is true , no direct and tangible effect can be traced ; they were swept away or crushed out of sight under the stress of the great French war . But after the peace the theory of democracy reappears in the more coherent shape ...
... ideas , it is true , no direct and tangible effect can be traced ; they were swept away or crushed out of sight under the stress of the great French war . But after the peace the theory of democracy reappears in the more coherent shape ...
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... ideas were confined to individual thinkers , and were never made known outside a narrow circle . Major Cartwright was an active and able agitator , and was a main agent in the formation of the Hamp- den Clubs , which sprang up at the ...
... ideas were confined to individual thinkers , and were never made known outside a narrow circle . Major Cartwright was an active and able agitator , and was a main agent in the formation of the Hamp- den Clubs , which sprang up at the ...
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