Project Gutenberg 2014-10-06 Public domain in the USA. 84 Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus) 1823 1892 Freeman, E. A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman, Edward Augustus The Growth of the English Constitution from the Earliest Times Produced by Greg Bergquist, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Growth of the English Constitution from the Earliest Times" by Edward A. Freeman is a historical account written in the late 19th century. This work explores the evolution of the English Constitution, tracing its roots back to ancient Teutonic institutions and their significance to contemporary governance. The author's primary focus is on how these early political systems influence modern political principles and structures. The opening of the text introduces the author’s intent to discuss the enduring legacy of ancient democratic practices, using the examples of the Swiss Cantons of Uri and Appenzell, which retain elements of their early democratic assemblies. Freeman emphasizes the importance of understanding these traditions to appreciate the development of England's constitutional history. He critiques the notion that modern institutions are entirely disconnected from their historical foundations, aiming instead to illuminate the continuity and adaptation of political systems from antiquity through the ages, leading to the formation of the modern English state. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Constitutional history -- Great Britain JN KD Text Browsing: History - British Browsing: Politics 441022 440979 2024-09-19T15:13:44.058395 2023-09-20T11:11:50.702461 text/html text/html 443865 2014-10-06T10:43:10 text/html; charset=utf-8 234203 2014-10-06T10:44:16 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 267495 2024-09-19T15:13:50.619296 application/epub+zip 271287 2024-09-19T15:13:45.156339 application/epub+zip 234968 2024-09-19T15:13:44.576396 application/epub+zip 397958 2024-09-19T15:13:54.681292 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 353052 2024-09-19T15:13:50.032332 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 318005 2022-09-21T11:31:43.358460 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 371182 2024-09-19T15:13:43.200424 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 371273 2014-10-06T10:42:54 text/plain; charset=utf-8 137984 2014-10-06T10:44:16 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 17976 2024-09-19T15:13:54.822304 application/rdf+xml 15010 2024-09-19T15:13:44.692382 image/jpeg 2812 2024-09-19T15:13:44.632384 image/jpeg 237175 2024-09-19T15:13:44.098330 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia