Set in a Silver SeaDoubleday, 1968 - 359 pages A social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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... Parliament House . Here sat the watchdog set by the nation to prevent the royal executive from overriding the law . At least that was how people saw it , for the theory of parliamentary sovereignty , first put forward by the extremists ...
... Parliament House . Here sat the watchdog set by the nation to prevent the royal executive from overriding the law . At least that was how people saw it , for the theory of parliamentary sovereignty , first put forward by the extremists ...
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... parliament . Without the support of a working majority of its members , they could not carry on the business of the country . And parliament itself was a balance of conflicting powers : of rival parties and often rival Houses . Nor did ...
... parliament . Without the support of a working majority of its members , they could not carry on the business of the country . And parliament itself was a balance of conflicting powers : of rival parties and often rival Houses . Nor did ...
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... parliamentary system began . Little more than 400,000 out of the English and Welsh population of ten and a half millions ... parliament free to change the laws as it chose . They would not be bound even by a Constitution . Only one thing ...
... parliamentary system began . Little more than 400,000 out of the English and Welsh population of ten and a half millions ... parliament free to change the laws as it chose . They would not be bound even by a Constitution . Only one thing ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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