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Measured by the standards of duration, absence of violent commotions, maintenance of law and order, general prosperity and contentment of the people, and by the extent of its influence on the institutions and political thought of other lands, the English government has been one of the most remarkable the world has ever known. An attempt, therefore, to study it at any salient epoch cannot be valueless; and the present is a salient epoch, for the nation has now enjoyed something very near to manhood suffrage in the boroughs for forty years, and throughout the country more than twenty years, a period long enough for democracy. | Government of England Vol. I by A. Lawrence Lowell 1 Government of England Vol. I by A. Lawrence Lowell Project Gutenberg s The Government of England Vol. I by A. Lawrence Lowell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Government of England Vol. I Author A. Lawrence Lowell Release Date November 28 2010 EBook 34471 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOVERNMENT OF ENGLAND VOL. I Produced by Lisa Reigel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s Notes Words in italics in the original are surrounded by underscores. Words in bold are surrounded by equal signs . Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original. Ellipses match the original. A complete list of typographical corrections follows the text. Government of England Vol. I by A. Lawrence Lowell 2 THE GOVERNMENT OF ENGLAND VOLUME I THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN CO. LIMITED LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA LTD. TORONTO THE GOVERNMENT OF ENGLAND BY A. LAWRENCE LOWELL PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY VOLUME I New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1908 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT 1908 BY A. LAWRENCE LOWELL. Set up and electrotyped. Published May 1908. Reprinted June 1908. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Smith Co. Norwood Mass. . PREFACE Measured by the standards of duration absence of violent commotions maintenance of law and order general prosperity and contentment of the people and by the extent of its influence on the institutions and political thought of other lands the English government has been one of the most remarkable the world has ever known. An attempt therefore to study it .