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Identifier: courseincivilgov00thor (find matches)
Title: A course in civil government
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Eldredge & brother
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pand some twenty resolute barons—statues of whom nowsupport the ceiling of the House of Lords—met the kingand his barons on a little island in the Thames, calledRunnymede, about fifteen miles above the city of Lon-don. There and then the king was forced to acknow-ledge the ancient rights of his people in a charter calledMagna Charta, the Great Charter, and as the king andmany of his barons could not write their names, theytied their seals to the charter with leathern strings, andthe charter with its seals of stone may be seen in the Brit-ish Museum to this day. The king tried to ignore thecharter, but the people and their barons waged war againsthim with such success that he and his successors for morethan seven hundred years have sworn to rule accordingto the law of the land and support the principles of thecharter. This promise of the king of England at his coro-nation is similar to the custom that prevails in the UnitedStates at the inauguration of a President, who takes a sol-
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POLITICAL RIGHTS IN ENGLAND. 31 emn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitutionof the United States. 56. The House of Commons.—But some of the kingsbroke their promises to the people. Fifty years after theGreat Charter the people of England found another patri-otic leader and friend in Simon de Montfort, who seizedthe king, Henry III., and summoned the representativesof the people in a Parliament. The people had once beenaccustomed to choosing an assembly of their wise men,who had made the laws of the land, but in 1265 theseassemblies had long fallen into disuse. De Montfort sim-ply restored them and gave them a French name, Parlia-ment, the talking body. In this first English Parliamentthe people were again represented by two men from eachshire and two from each borough. These representativesof the people soon united to form the House of Commons,which continues to this day as the representative councilof the people of England. The Commons are elected bythe Englishmen who

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