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The Rise of the Democracy

by Joseph Clayton

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The Early Struggles Against the Absolutism of the Crown
  3. 3Archbishop Anselm and Norman Autocracy
  4. 4Thomas à Becket and Henry II
  5. 5Stephen Langton and John
  6. 6The Great Charter
  7. 7Chapter II — The Beginning of Parliamentary Representation
  8. 8Representative Theory First Found in Ecclesiastical Assemblies
  9. 9The Misrule of Henry III
  10. 10Simon of Montfort, Leader of the National Party
  11. 11Edward I.’s Model Parliament, 1295
  12. 12The Nobility Predominant in Parliament
  13. 13The Medieval National Assemblies
  14. 14No Theory of Democracy in the Middle Ages
  15. 15Chapter III — Popular Insurrection in England
  16. 16William FitzOsbert, Called Longbeard, 1196
  17. 17The Peasant Revolt and Its Leaders, 1381
  18. 18Jack Cade, Captain of Kent, 1450
  19. 19The Norfolk Rising Under Robert Ket, 1549
  20. 20Chapter IV — The Struggle Renewed Against the Crown
  21. 21Victory of Parliament Over the Stuarts
  22. 22The Democratic Protest — Lilburne
  23. 23Winstanley and “The Diggers”
  24. 24The Restoration
  25. 25Chapter V — Constitutional Government — Aristocracy Triumphant
  26. 26Civil and Religious Liberty
  27. 27Growth of Cabinet Rule
  28. 28Walpole’s Rule
  29. 29The Change in the House of Lords
  30. 30“Wilkes and Liberty”
  31. 31Chapter VI — The Rise of the Democratic Idea
  32. 32The “Social Contract” Theory
  33. 33Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
  34. 34John Locke (1632-1704)
  35. 35Rousseau and the French Revolution
  36. 36American Independence
  37. 37Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
  38. 38Major Cartwright and the “Radical Reformers”
  39. 39Thomas Spence (1750-1814)
  40. 40Practical Politics and Democratic Ideals
  41. 41Chapter VII — Parliamentary Reform and the Enfranchisement of the P…
  42. 42The Need for Parliamentary Reform
  43. 43Manufacturing Centres Unrepresented in Parliament
  44. 44The Passage of the Great Reform Bill
  45. 45The Working Class Still Unrepresented
  46. 46Chartism
  47. 47The Hyde Park Railings (1866)
  48. 48Household Suffrage
  49. 49Working-Class Representation in Parliament
  50. 50Removal of Religious Disabilities — Catholics, Jews, and Freethinkers
  51. 51The Enfranchisement of Women
  52. 52Chapter VIII — Democracy at Work
  53. 53The Workman in the House of Commons
  54. 54Working-class Leaders in Parliament
  55. 55The Present Position of the House of Lords
  56. 56The Popularity of the Crown
  57. 57The Democratic Ideals: Socialism and Social Reform
  58. 58Land Reform and the Single Tax
  59. 59Chapter IX — The World-Wide Movement: Its Strength and Weakness
  60. 60Tyranny Under Democratic Forms
  61. 61The Obvious Dangers
  62. 62Party Government
  63. 63Bureaucracy
  64. 64Working-Class Ascendancy
  65. 65On Behalf of Democracy

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