The Rise of the Democracy

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Author

Clayton, Joseph, 1868-1943

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E-text prepared by Afra Ullah, Keith Edkins, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

JN: Political science: Political inst. and pub. Admin.: Europe

Subject

Great Britain -- Politics and government

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Text

eBook-No.

19609

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19609

Release Date

October 23, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE RISE OF THE DEMOCRACY — JOSEPH CLAYTON — WITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE PLATES — CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD. London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1911 — KING JOHN GRANTING MAGNA CHARTA — From the Fresco in the Royal Exchange, by Ernest Normand. — PREFACE — CONTENTS — INTRODUCTION — CHAPTER I — the early struggles against the absolutism of the crown — CHAPTER II — the beginning of parliamentary representation — CHAPTER III — popular insurrection in england — CHAPTER IV — the struggle renewed against the crown — CHAPTER V — constitutional government—aristocracy triumphant — CHAPTER VI — the rise of the democratic idea — CHAPTER VII — parliamentary reform and the enfranchisement of the people — CHAPTER VIII — democracy at work — CHAPTER IX — the world-wide movement: its strength and weakness — LIST OF PLATES
2. 2.THE RISE OF THE DEMOCRACY — INTRODUCTION — The British Influence — Government of the People, by the People, for the People — The Foundations of Democracy — British Democracy Experimental, not Doctrinaire — Education to Democracy — CHAPTER I — THE EARLY STRUGGLES AGAINST THE ABSOLUTISM OF THE CROWN — The Great Churchmen — Archbishop Anselm and Norman Autocracy — Thomas à Becket and Henry II. — Stephen Langton and John — The Great Charter — MAGNA CHARTA — A facsimile of the Original in the British Museum. — CHAPTER II — THE BEGINNING OF PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION — 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 — No Theory of Democracy in the Middle Ages — CHAPTER III — POPULAR INSURRECTION IN ENGLAND — General Results of Popular Risings — William FitzOsbert, called Longbeard, 1196 — The Peasant Revolt and its Leaders, 1381 — Jack Cade, Captain of Kent, 1450 — The Norfolk Rising under Robert Ket, 1549 — CHAPTER IV — THE STRUGGLE RENEWED AGAINST THE CROWN — Parliament under the Tudors — SIR JOHN ELIOT — Victory of Parliament over the Stuarts — The Democratic Protest—Lilburne — Winstanley and "The Diggers" — JOHN HAMPDEN — The Restoration — CHAPTER V — CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT—ARISTOCRACY TRIUMPHANT — Government by Aristocracy — Civil and Religious Liberty — Growth of Cabinet Rule — Walpole's Rule — The Change in the House of Lords — " Wilkes and Liberty " — CHAPTER VI — THE RISE OF THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA — The Witness of the Middle Ages — The "Social Contract" Theory — Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) — John Locke (1632-1704) — Rousseau and the French Revolution — American Independence — Thomas Paine (1737-1809) — Major Cartwright and the "Radical Reformers" — THE GORDON RIOTS — Thomas Spence (1750-1814) — Practical Politics and Democratic Ideals — CHAPTER VII — PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AND THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE PEOPLE — The Industrial Revolution — The Need for Parliamentary Reform — Manufacturing Centres Unrepresented in Parliament — The Passage of the Great Reform Bill — The Working Class Still Unrepresented — Chartism — The Hyde Park Railings (1866) — Household Suffrage — Working-Class Representation in Parliament — Removal of Religious Disabilities—Catholics, Jews, and Freethinkers — The Enfranchisement of Women — CHAPTER VIII — DEMOCRACY AT WORK — Local Government — THE RIGHT HON. JOHN BURNS, M.P. — The Workman in the House of Commons — Working-class Leaders in Parliament — THE RIGHT HON. D. LLOYD GEORGE, M.P. — The Present Position of the House of Lords — THE PASSING OF THE PARLIAMENT BILL IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS — The Popularity of the Crown — The Democratic Ideals: Socialism and Social Reform — Land Reform and the Single Tax — CHAPTER IX — THE WORLD-WIDE MOVEMENT: ITS STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS — East and West — Tyranny under Democratic Forms — The Obvious Dangers — Party Government — Bureaucracy — Working-Class Ascendancy — On Behalf of Democracy — Notes.

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