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  • From Paris to London to New York to San Francisco, this phenomenon resulted in bitter denunciations, criticism and recriminations which thundered from pulpits to the Houses of Parlia [...]

    2009 March | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • And with a strong communist presence in Parlia - ment, he may not be able to promote an aggressive reformist agenda, even if he wants to.

    Born Again 2008

  • All applications for seats in the Press Gallery inside Parlia - ment or anywhere else on the site should be directed to the secretary of Parliament or the SA Communication Services.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • All applications for seats in the Press Gallery inside Parlia - ment or anywhere else on the site should be directed to the secretary of Parliament or the SA Communication Services.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Parlia - mentary institutions are no guarantee against tyranny; nor can universal suffrage be held to provide any de - fense.

    DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

  • In England ideas like those of the Levellers, though not acknowledged as theirs since the term was prejora - tive, continued to be expressed in the eighteenth cen - tury, were actively advanced by English “Jacobins” at the time of the French Revolution, inspired Parlia - mentary reform, and animated the Chartists in the nineteenth century.

    EQUALITY R. R. PALMER 1968

  • In England, the influence was due to political institutions (Parlia - ment, State Church, common law) and societal factors

    CONSERVATISM RUDOLF VIERHAUS 1968

  • In the seventeenth-century struggle between Parlia - ment and the Crown, the common lawyers threw their weight onto the side of Parliament and this alliance

    COMMON LAW PETER STEIN 1968

  • Lilburne, argues for the sovereignty of the common people, who need to be made the masters of Parlia - ment.

    DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

  • For Blackstone, sovereignty rested in Parlia - ment — King, Lords, and Commons.

    DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

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