State of the Parliament under Richard II.
Struggle between absolute royalty and parliamentary government.
Origin of the Civil List.
Progress of the responsibility of ministers.
Progress of the returns of the employment of the public revenue.
The Commons encroach upon the government.
Reaction against the sway of the Commons.
Violence and fall of Richard II.
Progress of the essential maxims and practices of representative government.
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Summary of the history of the Parliament from the death of Richard II. to the accession of the House of Stuart.
Progress of the forms of procedure, and of the privileges of Parliament.
Liberty of speech in both Houses.
Inviolability of members of Parliament.
Judicial power of the House of Lords.
Decadence of the Parliament during the wars of the Roses, and under the Tudor dynasty.
Causes of this decadence and of the progress of royal authority, from Henry VII. to Elizabeth.
Conclusion.
History Of The Origin Of Representative Government In Europe.
Part I.
Representative Institutions In England, France, And Spain, From The Fifth To The Eleventh Century.
Lecture I.
Simultaneous development of history and civilization.
Two errors in our method of considering the past; proud disdain, or superstitious admiration.
Historic impartiality the vocation of the present age.
Divisions of the history of the political institutions of Europe into four great epochs.
Representative government was the general and natural aim of these institutions.
Object of the course; inquiry into the origin of representative government in France, Spain, and England.
State of mind appropriate to this inquiry.