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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ESSAY III. THE ANGLO-NORMAN AND ANGEVIN ADMINIS- TRATIVE SYSTEM (IIOO-I26S). The essential divergence between the history Character of England and that of the continental states English is shown as clearly in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as at other epochs. Beyond the Channel the danger to society lay in the pre- dominance of feudalism, which at first seemed likely to prove fatal alike to royal power and to municipal liberty. On this side of the straits of Dover the fear was that the inordinate development of the authority of the king would reduce all the other elements of the constitu- tion to impotence. Henry I. was obeyed with a punctuality on which no contemporary sovereign of Christendom?-save John Comnenus in the far East?could reckon. So firmly had the English administrative system taken root by the middle of the twelfth century, that not Strength of the English administrative system. even the anarchy of Stephen's reign could break it down. Henry II. was the most powerful king in Europe, not so much from the extent of his dominions, as from the order in which he kept them. Even the weak Henry III., when backed by the forces of administrative tradition, was formidable enough to task the whole energy of the nation in his repression. What then was the system which rendered the English monarchy so strong, in the days when other states were suffering from the worst evils of feudal anarchy? It was a system the essential principles of which lay in the complete subordination of all the branches of the administration to the royal power, and in the ease and certainty with which that power could make itself felt throughout the land. It reduced the dangers of feudalism to a minimum, by vigorously enforcing the direct jurisdiction and authority of the sovereign ove...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217927093
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217927092
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 145 gr


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