G. M. Trevelyan Quote

In the Stuart era, the English developed for themselves, without foreign participation or example, a system of Parliamentary government, local administration and freedom of speech and person, clean contrary to the prevailing tendencies on the continent, which was moving fast toward regal absolution, centralized bureaucracy, and the subjection of the individual to the State.


A Shortened History of England (1959)


In the Stuart era, the English developed for themselves, without foreign participation or example, a system of Parliamentary government, local...

In the Stuart era, the English developed for themselves, without foreign participation or example, a system of Parliamentary government, local...

In the Stuart era, the English developed for themselves, without foreign participation or example, a system of Parliamentary government, local...

In the Stuart era, the English developed for themselves, without foreign participation or example, a system of Parliamentary government, local...