Word: feudality
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...emphasized the fact that the Renaissance was a late period in modern history and not its beginning, so that we cannot separate ourselves from the effects which the forces of the middle ages have exerted upon our nineteenth century life. Mediaeval history begins in the dark ages, when the feudal system determined certain fixed liberties and duties, and when the organization of the Church had begun to be a wide-felt settling and pacific influence. France was the home of the new culture which began to spring up under these new and favoring conditions to spread rapidly over Europe. This...
...Feudal System exist in England before the Norman Conquest...
Another beautiful castle is Trintern, built in the time of Henry III and in the early English style. Not far away is Raglan Castie, an edifice of a later period, chiefly of interest because of its connection with the civil war. It is one of the finest feudal fortresses now in existence...
...Healey '91 opened the debate on the affirmative. He said that the question could not be considered on political grounds but only on grounds of expediency. He declared the poll tax as a requisite for voting to be a refic of the old feudal system and said that it had been abolished in almost all the European countries and by 37 out of the 44 states of the Union. He cited the opinions of the leading men in both the great political parties in favor of the affirmative and closed by showing that the poll tax as a requirement...
...Costigan '92 continued the debate on the negative. He said that simply paying a man's poll tax was not sufficient to induce him to vote for any particular candidate. He ridiculed the idea that the poll tax was necessarily bad because it came down from feudal time. This qualification adds to the dignity of American citizenship. Its abolition would not diminish bribery but would tend greatly to increase it by increasing the corruption fund of the professional politicians. He thought that the abolition of the poll taxes as a requisite for voting would take away one of the greatest...