Wessexman

The parliament evolved as a judicial body similar in many ways to the French parlements but also having some similarities to the estates and estates-general. However unlike the French parliament it did not detach from the Curia regis and it is probably wrong to say it evolved from the crown. That seems to me to suggest the wrong kind of ideas of sovereignty for the middle ages.

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"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. "
-George Canning

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
-John Randolph

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
-Edmund Burke

Leopold Kohr.