Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Gentlemen of the House of Commons, Vol. 1 of 2
Westminster in anglo-saxon times - The Witenagemot, as predecessor of the House of Commons, at work - The Scene and the Actors in it - Transition from anglo-saxon Westminster to Palace Yard, Westminster, in our day - Associa tions, political or national, connecting the two epochs - Circumstances specially favourable to the growth of Commons' Estate and Chamber in England not present in other countries - Still even there political representation a fact; its Continental progress; especially in France and Spain - The French States General - The germs of the House of Commons in the earliest days-gradual advance of the principle as shown in the periods into which this work divides itself - Method of treatment explained, and different epochs contained in the book set forth - The principle of arrangement local rather than chronological.
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