English nobility
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higher orders of nobility · the English nobility · the nobility · the nobles of 1688
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The English aristocracy after the Revolution of 1688, cited as a group that governed with a degree of public virtue despite its power.
English democracy now knows its power, as English kings knew their power in the Middle Ages, as the English nobility knew its power after the Revolution of 1688, as the middle class knew its power between 1832 and 1866.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The titled aristocracy of England, discussed for the rarity of long male-line descent among them.
It is said that genuine pedigrees almost as long may be found among the English gentry, but anybody can convince himself that among the English nobility a long continuity of male descents is very rare, though there are exceptions, a notable one being that of the Stanleys.
The Law of Intellectual Property
The titled aristocracy forming one branch of the English Parliament.
The nobility, of course, have represented only their own interests.
This legislative power, which was wholly unknown to the English Constitution, and which had its origin solely in a conspiracy between the king, the nobility, and the wealth of the kingdom, to rule and plunder the mass of the people, has consisted of the king and the parliament united;