The constitution of England |  | Author: Jean Louis de Lolme
Publisher: General Books LLC
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ISBN: 0217625614
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Publication Date: August 16, 2009
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. I'he SubjeR continued. THE Reprefcntatives of the Nation, and of the whole Nation, were now admitted into Parliament: the great point therefore was gained, that was one day to procure them the great influence which they at prefent pof- fefs ; and the fubfequent reigns afford continual inftances of its fucceffive growth. Under Edward the Second, the Commons began to annex petitions to the bills by which they granted fubfidics : this was the dawn of their legiflative authority. Under Edward the Third, they declared they wo'uld not, in future, acknowledge any law to which they had not ex- prefsly aflented. Soon after this, they exerted a privilege in which confifts, at this time, one of the great balances of the Conftitution : they impeached, and procured to be condemned, fome of the firft Miniflcrs of State. Under Henry th,e Fourth, they refufed to grant fub- fidies before an anfwer had been given to their petitions. In a word, every event of any con- fequence was attended with an increafe of the power of the Commons; increafes indeed butflow and gradual, but which were peaceably . and legally eflected, and were the more fit to engage the attention of the People, and coalefce . wjith the ancient principles of the Conftttution. Under Henry the Fifth, the Nation was en- . t.irely taken up with its wars againft France; and in the reign of Henry the Sixth began the fatal contefts between the houfes of York and Lancafter, The noife of arms alone was now to be heard ; during the filence of the laws already in being, no thought was had of enact- ing new ones ; and for thirty years together, England prefents. a wide fcene of flaughter and defolation. At length, under Henry the Seventh, who, by his intermarriage with the houfe of York, united the pretenfions of the t...
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A greater understanding of our own constitution. May 4, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
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The grandfather of our very own American constitution, "The Constitution of England" is one of the most vital political treatises to come out of Enlightenment Era England, and the subject of "The Constitution of England", important book on political liberty. Although originally written in French (and published in Amsterdam) by Jean Louis De Lolme, it has been edited and enhanced with an introduction by David Lieberman in this new edition for modern American history. Sure to be fuel for many, many debates and discussion, "The Constitution of England" is enthusiastically recommended to politics and American history library shelves, and any non-specialist general interest reader who simply wants a greater understanding of our own constitution.
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