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Page 205
... continued to function as units of administra- tion and of justice but with important changes . Bishops and earls ceased to preside over the shire courts . Bishops henceforth were to have their own ecclesiastical courts . Earls exercised ...
... continued to function as units of administra- tion and of justice but with important changes . Bishops and earls ceased to preside over the shire courts . Bishops henceforth were to have their own ecclesiastical courts . Earls exercised ...
Page 257
... continued to frustrate the empire . Americans , who rejected the principle , eventually ceased to talk about their rights as Englishmen ; in 1776 they based their claim to indepen- dence upon their rights as men . The British ...
... continued to frustrate the empire . Americans , who rejected the principle , eventually ceased to talk about their rights as Englishmen ; in 1776 they based their claim to indepen- dence upon their rights as men . The British ...
Page 272
... continued the trend toward universal male suffrage by giving the vote to agricultural labourers , thereby tripling the electorate , and the Redistribution Act of 1885 , which robbed 79 towns with populations under 15,000 of their ...
... continued the trend toward universal male suffrage by giving the vote to agricultural labourers , thereby tripling the electorate , and the Redistribution Act of 1885 , which robbed 79 towns with populations under 15,000 of their ...
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