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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate strength in the Atlanta campaign . (search)
Parliament, English
The Teutonic Witenagemot or assembly of the wise, the noble, and the great men of the nation was the origin of parliament.
Coke declared that the term parliament was used in the time of Edward the Confessor, A. D. 1041.
The first regular parliament, according to many historians, was that of Edward I. in 1294.
The first speaker of the House of Commons, Peter De La Mare, was elected in 1377.
The powers and jurisdiction of Parliament are absolute, and cannot be confined either by causes or persons within bounds.
It has sovereign and uncontrollable authority in making and repealing laws; it can regulate and new-model the succession to the crown; it can alter and establish the religion of the country.
The first act of the British Parliament relating to the American colonies was passed in 1548, and prohibited the exaction of any reward by an officer of the English admiralty from English fishermen and mariners going on the service of the fishery at Newfoundla
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 9 : Hampshire County . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48 : Seward .—emancipation.—peace with France .—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington .—letters to Bright, Cobden , and the Duchess of Argyll .—English opinion on the Civil War .—Earl Russell and Gladstone .—foreign relations.—1862 -1863 . (search)
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., My Revolutionary ancestors: major Job Cushing , Lieutenant Jerome Lincoln , Walter Foster Cushing (search)