September, 1911.


CONTENTS

[INTRODUCTION]

The British Influence—"Government of the People, by the People, for the People"—The Foundations of Democracy—British Democracy Experimental not Doctrinaire—Education to Democracy

[CHAPTER I]

the early struggles against the absolutism of the crown

The Great Churchmen—Archbishop Anselm and Norman Autocracy—Thomas à Becket and Henry II.—Stephen Langton and John—The Great Charter

[CHAPTER II]

the beginning of parliamentary representation