Category: History - British
The _Landesgemeinden_ of Uri and Appenzell—their bearing on English Constitutional History—political elements common to the whole Teutonic race—monarchic, aristocratic, and democratic elements to be found from the beginning—the three classes of men, the noble, the common freem...
In my first chapter I dealt mainly with those political institutions of the earliest times—institutions common to our whole race, institutions which still live on untouched amon...
4. CHAPTER I.Year by year, on certain spots among the dales and the mountain-sides of Switzerland, the traveller who is daring enough to wander out of beaten tracks and to make his journey a...
6. CHAPTER III.IN my two former chapters I have carried my brief sketch of the history of the English Constitution down to the great events of the seventeenth century. I chose that point as th...
9. Chapter I.(7) On the acclamations of the Assembly, see note 19 to Chapter I. I suspect that in all early assemblies, and not in that of Sparta only, κρίνουσι βοῇ καὶ οὐ ψήφῳ (Thuc. i. 87)...
11. ii. 21, where the whole matter is discussed, and it is remarked that(21) See the discussion on the famous vote of the Convention Parliament in Hallam, Constitutional History, ii. 260-263. Macaulay, ii. 623. Hallam remarks that “the word ‘forfeit...
7. CHAPTER I.(1) What I say of Uri and the other democratic Cantons must not be misunderstood, as if I all accepted the now exploded dreams which made out the _Waldstädte_ or Forest Cantons...
10. CHAPTER III.(1) This was the famous motion made by Sir Robert Peel against the Ministry of Lord Melbourne, and carried by a majority of one, June 4, 1841. See May’s Constitutional History,...
8. CHAPTER II.(1) In the great poetical manifesto of the patriotic party in Henry the Third’s reign, printed in Wright’s Political Songs of England (Camden Society, 1839), there seems to be n...
3. CHAPTER III.Character of later constitutional developments—greater importance of silent changes—growth of the unwritten _Constitution_ as distinguished from the written _Law_—Sir Robert Pee...
2. CHAPTER II.Gradual growth of the English Constitution—new laws seldom called for—importance of precedent—return to early principles in modern legislation—shrinking up of the ancient nation...
1. CHAPTER I.The _Landesgemeinden_ of Uri and Appenzell—their bearing on English Constitutional History—political elements common to the whole Teutonic race—monarchic, aristocratic, and demo...
12. Volume I. of “A Historical Course for Schools;” edited by E. A.EXPERIENCES OF A DIPLOMATIST. Being Recollections of Germany, founded on Diaries kept during the years 1840-1870. By JOHN WARD, C.B., late H.M. Minister-Resident to the Hanse To...