Politics - A Treatise on Government

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CONTENTS
Chronicle
Introduction
    The History of Freedom in Antiquity
    The History of Freedom in Christianity
    Sir Erskine May's Democracy in Europe
    The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
    The Protestant Theory of Persecution
    Political Thoughts on the Church
    Introduction To L.A. Burd's Edition Of Il Principe by Machiavelli
    Mr. Goldwin Smith's Irish History
    Nationality
    Döllinger on the Temporal Power
    Döllinger's Historical Work
    Cardinal Wiseman and the Home and Foreign Review
    Conflicts With Rome
    The Vatican Council
    A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. By Henry Charles Lea
    The American Commonwealth. By James Bryce
    Historical Philosophy in France and French Belgium and Switzerland. By Robert Flint
Appendix
Index

About the Author
"John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. He is famous for his remark, often misquoted: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."" -- Wikipedia

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CONTENTS
Volume I From the beginning until the death of Alexander I
Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
      
About the Author
"Simon Dubnow (1860 – 1941) was a Jewish historian, writer and activist."--Wikipadia

In the Original Latin and Translation into English Content

This legal document is often referenced for the development of new laws and the understanding of established law.  It is the foreground for many laws founded in the early Americas and influenced many of the first documents of the Continental Congress and eventually the United States of America.

On June 15, 1215, in a field at Runnymede, King John affixed his seal to Magna Carta. Confronted by 40 rebellious barons, he consented to their demands in order to avert civil war. Just 10 weeks later, Pope Innocent III nullified the agreement, and England plunged into internal war.

Although Magna Carta failed to resolve the conflict between King John and his barons, it was reissued several times after his death.

As might be expected, the text of the Magna Carta of 1215 bears many traces of haste, and is clearly the product of much bargaining and many hands. Most of its clauses deal with specific, and often long-standing, grievances rather than with general principles of law. Some of the grievances are self-explanatory: others can be understood only in the context of the feudal society in which they arose. Of a few clauses, the precise meaning is still a matter of argument.

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