The Development of Parliament During the Nineteenth CenturyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1895 - 183 Seiten |
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... boroughs had been created , while many of the old ones had lost all importance , and some of them all but their parliamentary existence , so that the borough representation bore no proportion at all either to the wealth or the ...
... boroughs had been created , while many of the old ones had lost all importance , and some of them all but their parliamentary existence , so that the borough representation bore no proportion at all either to the wealth or the ...
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... boroughs . The members returned to Parlia- ment by a green mound ' or a stone wall with three niches in it ' were nominees of the gentle- men on whose estates these remains of former cities stood ; the few insignificant electors of a ...
... boroughs . The members returned to Parlia- ment by a green mound ' or a stone wall with three niches in it ' were nominees of the gentle- men on whose estates these remains of former cities stood ; the few insignificant electors of a ...
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... boroughs were regarded as the property of certain proprietors , whose names are to be found printed in Oldfield's ... borough seats were filled by nominees of the aristocracy 6 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
... boroughs were regarded as the property of certain proprietors , whose names are to be found printed in Oldfield's ... borough seats were filled by nominees of the aristocracy 6 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. the borough seats were filled by nominees of the aristocracy , and in this way members of ... boroughs , either by purchase or through the votes of government officials , but he was also in a position to bribe ...
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. the borough seats were filled by nominees of the aristocracy , and in this way members of ... boroughs , either by purchase or through the votes of government officials , but he was also in a position to bribe ...
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... borough , for example , might be controlled by the middle class ; another by the potwallopers , the poorest and humblest of the people . Here the seat might be presented to a promising youth of genius ; here it might be purchased by a ...
... borough , for example , might be controlled by the middle class ; another by the potwallopers , the poorest and humblest of the people . Here the seat might be presented to a promising youth of genius ; here it might be purchased by a ...
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