Word: parliament
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LOST.- Gneist's History of Parliament and Taswell-Longmead's Constitutional History of England. Will the gentleman who took these books by mistake from the reading room in Harvard Hall kindly return them to 36 Trowbridge street...
...conservatism of the English people has acted as a check upon their legislation, and the lower classes have not been represented in Parliament, but have been contented to be ruled by the higher classes. England is virtually an aristocracy. The United States is a democracy. Our machinery of Government is careful and more safe...
When King James overthrew the company he began to prepare a constitution for the colony, but died before it was completed. He was succeeded by Charles, who, on account of quarrels with parliament, wished to make friends of the colonists...
...when he forbade Sandy's re-election, his interference was repaid by the election of the Earl of Southampton. The king's deadly jealousy now found ready allies in Sir Thomas Smith and his friends in the Company hostile to Sandy and Southampton. When in 1621 the king summoned Parliament, the members of the Company belonging to that body succeeded in defeating his cherished plans...
...July, 1623, the Attorney General made a report, in which he said that the king should assume the entire government of the colony. A writ of "quo warranto" was entered against the company in the Court of the King's Bench. A last appeal to Parliament was laid on the table by order of the king. The case of "quo warranto" was argued, and on June 16, 1624, the Chief Justice declared the Company's Charter null and void. Ferrar, before surrendering the records of the company had copies of them made, which are now in the possession...