The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
98 Chapter V Rousseau, fleeing from Paris, was kept from Geneva by the decree of arrest, and was also refused asylum in the neig ...
A Clash with Democracy 99 aim of a political society, to conserve itself by conserving its constitution.”^21 He suggested in pas ...
100 Chapter V mountebank, drags with him from village to village, and from mountain to moun- tain, the unfortunate woman whose m ...
A Clash with Democracy 101 times refused to elect any Syndics. That is, the Small Council repeatedly offered candidates, chosen ...
102 Chapter V on foreigners. “Let us pull down this wall of separation” between government and citizens; “this eternal rock on w ...
A Clash with Democracy 103 pared to the Declaratory Act of 1766 in which the British Parliament affirmed its sovereignty over Am ...
104 Chapter V the Guarantors told them they were “in the State, but not of it,” since they did not constitute an Order.^29 Such ...
A Clash with Democracy 105 the French parlements, he was also converted by events at Geneva to as nearly democratic an outlook a ...
CHAPTER VI THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT BETWEEN KING AND PEOPLE The power and jurisdiction of Parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so ...
The British Parliament 107 The British Constitution There is a curious irony in the situation. The dozen years preceding the Ame ...
108 Chapter VI simultaneously bowed to them; they triumphed in America and in the East. Empire was on them bestowed; where Caesa ...
The British Parliament 109 charge of the government. The first edition of the collected Letters of Junius, pub- lished in 1772, ...
110 Chapter VI sized. For Delolme, as later for John Adams, the important thing was that a strong king (or executive in the case ...
The British Parliament 111 others maintained.^7 Parliament after 1689 was no longer subordinate to the King; but neither, until ...
112 Chapter VI come, for themselves, their sons, their dependents, or their “friends,” or men who had local influence in the cou ...
The British Parliament 113 America was far advanced. Even then, under the political conditions of the day, no clear alignment wa ...
114 Chapter VI archs were acting at the time. He had, of course, no such intention. He would try to take control from the magnat ...
The British Parliament 115 tion led irresistibly to constitutional innovation. The British government, to put through its fiscal ...
116 Chapter VI APPROXIMATE ANNUAL TAX BURDEN PER HEAD IN ENGLISH SHILLINGS About 1765 About 1785 United Provinces 35 Great Brita ...
The British Parliament 117 APPROXIMATE ANNUAL TAX BURDEN PER HEAD IN ENGLISH SHILLINGS (CONT.) About 1765 About 1785 Spain 10 Sw ...
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