The world: historical and actual . the mostimportant guaranty of theentire charter. No taxa-tion without the consent ofthe taxed was another greatprinciple, and one whichdeveloped into the right ofthe House of Commons inEngland and the House of Representatives in theUnited States to originate all revenue bills. Notwithstanding the fact that King John was avery brave and able man, he not only failed utterlyto hold in check his English subjects, but he lostthe dukedom of Normandy, which was seized by theFrench king, and henceforth the title became ex-tinct. His reign was singularly inglorious, a
The world: historical and actual . the mostimportant guaranty of theentire charter. No taxa-tion without the consent ofthe taxed was another greatprinciple, and one whichdeveloped into the right ofthe House of Commons inEngland and the House of Representatives in theUnited States to originate all revenue bills. Notwithstanding the fact that King John was avery brave and able man, he not only failed utterlyto hold in check his English subjects, but he lostthe dukedom of Normandy, which was seized by theFrench king, and henceforth the title became ex-tinct. His reign was singularly inglorious, and hisname is exceptionally infamous in royal had the one notable act of his life been vol-untary, it would have made him to the English peo-ple much what Abraham Lincoln is to the coloredpeople of America. As it was, he neither re-ceived nor deserved the slightest credit for affixingthe royal sign manual to the charter. The death of this baffled despot left the crown tohis son, Henry, then only eight years of age. For. RICHARD CCEUR DB LEON three years the kingdom was ruled by a regentof patriotism and statesmanship, Earl king was declared of age when sixteen yearsold (1223), taking the title of Henry III. Itwas during his reign that the great council of thenation became known as the parliament, and beganto assume its proper function as the really supremeauthority in the land. Henry was a weak king, andthat fact was fortunate for the nation. It wasfarther fortunate that he was a spendthrift. Heneeded money, and had to apply to parliament forappropriations. Every application, whether grantedor denied, sened to em-phasize I he parliamentaryjurisdiction. But the churchof Rome was quite as eagerto take advantage of Hen-rys imbecility as the peoplewere, and during this reignecclesiastical usurpationmade considerable showed a piti-ful incapacity for govern-ment. For many years thecountry was in a state bor-dering on anarchy. Thereign of thi
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