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The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume II: The Intermediate Ages

S. E. Finer

Print publication date: 1999

Print ISBN-13: 9780198207900

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207900.001.0001

Representative Assemblies

Chapter:
8. Representative Assemblies
Source:
The History of Government from the Earliest Times
Author(s):

S. E. Finer

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207900.003.0010

This chapter begins with a discussion of the emergence of representative assemblies during the 13th and 14th centuries. It then discusses the clerical and secular lineages of representation, the meaning of ‘representation’, the characteristics of assemblies, three contrasting representative assemblies (the Parliament of England, the Estates-General in France, and the Polish Sejm), and the fate of the representative principle.

Keywords:   representation, assemblies, representative principle, clerical lineage, secular lineage

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