The Great Churchmen--Archbishop Anselm and Norman Autocracy--Thomas a Becket and Henry II.--Stephen Langton and John--The Great Charter Democracy and Representative Government--Representative Theory First found in Ecclesiastical Assemblies--The Misrule of Henry III.--Simon of Montfort, Leader of the National Party--Edward I.'s Model Parliament, 1295--The Nobility Predominant in Parliament--The Medieval National Assemblies--The Electors of the Middle Ages--Payment of Parliamentary Representatives--The Political Position of Women in the Middle Ages--No Theory of Democracy in the Middle Ages…
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