Kings of England
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The monarchs of England, described as having used the granting of corporate charters to purchase political support and expand royal power at the expense of the barons and the people.
Kings to purchase partisans, reduce the barons, and increase their own power;
The kings gave away the lands as their own absolute property.
The conditions, annexed to the grants of kings, were founded on the fictions of an absolute sovereignty over persons and property.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The monarchs of medieval England, invoked as a historical parallel for how a newly powerful group may govern.
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.