Category: History - British
Democracy and Representative Government--Representative Theory First found in Ecclesiastical Assemblies--The Misrule of Henry III.--Simon of Montfort, Leader of the National Party--Edward I.'s Model Parliament, 1295--The Nobility Predominant in Parliament--The Medieval Nationa...
Democracy and Representative Government--Representative Theory First found in Ecclesiastical Assemblies--The Misrule of Henry III.--Simon of Montfort, Leader of the National Par...
3. Chapter 34. Chapter 45. Chapter 56. Chapter 67. Chapter 7The Industrial Revolution--The Need for Parliamentary Reform--Manufacturing Centres Unrepresented in Parliament--The Passage of the Great Reform Bill--The Working Class still Un...
8. Chapter 8Local Government--The Workman in the House of Commons--Working-class Leaders in Parliament--The Present Position of the House of Lords--The Popularity of the Crown--The Democrat...
9. Chapter 9Our business here is to give some plain account of the movement towards democracy in England, only touching incidentally on the progress of that movement in other parts of the w...
10. Chapter 10We are far from any thoughts of democracy in the early struggles against the absolutism of the Crown. The old love of personal liberty that is said to have characterised the Ang...
11. Chapter 11The weak spots in all popular electoral systems are obvious, and the election of representatives is always a subject for jokes and satire. It could hardly be otherwise. For the...
12. Chapter 12Popular insurrection has never been successful in England; a violent death and a traitor's doom have been the lot of every leader of the common people who took up arms against t...
13. Chapter 13The English Parliament throughout the sixteenth century was but a servile instrument of the Crown. The great barons were dead. Henry VIII. put to death Sir Thomas More and all w...
14. Chapter 14For nearly two centuries--from 1660 to 1830--England was governed by an aristocracy of landowners. Charles II. kept the throne for twenty-five years, because he had wit enough t...
15. Chapter 15The idea of constitutional government has its witnesses in the Middle Ages, democratic theories are common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but it is not till the eig...
16. Chapter 16fiction for getting a national convention, contained a careful definition of representative government. It showed that government by democracy--i.e. by popular meeting, suitable...
17. Chapter 17The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century changed the face of England and brought to the manufacturing class wealth and prominence. The population of Lancashire was no...
18. Chapter 18The whole system of local government in Great Britain and Ireland is essentially democratic. The municipal councils of all the large cities are elected on household suffrage, an...
19. Chapter 19For generations there has been agitation in Russia for representative government, and men and women--in countless numbers--have sacrificed wealth, reputation, liberty, and life...