Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 páginas Herbert J. Muller examines the meaning of freedom in the great civilizations of the past including the Sumerian, Egyptian, Minoan, Assyrian, Persian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and early Christian. Ranging from the attempts of the cave man to free himself from the tyranny of nature through magic and ritual, to the religious despotism of Byzantium, the author surveys freedom's gains and triumps, its losses and failures. In doing so, he provides the reader with new insight into the meaning and destiny of freedom in Western Civilization. |
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Página 278
... parliaments survived the rise of monarchy but the royal ones withered away ; only in England did this national body persist all along and be- come Parliament — a permanent capitalized institution . If this outcome was hardly assured in ...
... parliaments survived the rise of monarchy but the royal ones withered away ; only in England did this national body persist all along and be- come Parliament — a permanent capitalized institution . If this outcome was hardly assured in ...
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... Parliament welcomed Blackstone's assertion that by the English Constitution " the power of Parliament is absolute and without control , " and that Locke was mis- taken in his notion that the people had a right to remove or alter it if ...
... Parliament welcomed Blackstone's assertion that by the English Constitution " the power of Parliament is absolute and without control , " and that Locke was mis- taken in his notion that the people had a right to remove or alter it if ...
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... Parliament either ; and at that there is little question that the colonists would have remained dissatisfied had they been granted some members , since Parliament would have pro- ceeded to tax them anyway . In the Declaration of ...
... Parliament either ; and at that there is little question that the colonists would have remained dissatisfied had they been granted some members , since Parliament would have pro- ceeded to tax them anyway . In the Declaration of ...
Contenido
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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