The History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe

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THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS OF REPRESEN'[A.'TlVE GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE françois guizot translated by andrew r. scoble introduction and notes by aurelian craiutu liberty fund indianapolis This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as the design motif for our endpapers is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 b.c. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.© 2002 Liberty Fund, Inc. All rights reserved. Frontispiece: François Guizot painted by Ary Scheffer around 1832. Private collection. Photograph taken in 2000 by François Louchet. Art for paperback cover is a detail from Claude Monet’s The Houses of Parliament, Sunset; from the Chester Dale Collection, photograph © 2001 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington., D.C. Printed in the United States of America 02 03 04 05 06 C 5 4 3 2 1 02 03 04 05 06 P 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Guizot, (François), 1787‒1874. [Histoire des origines du gouvernement représentatif en Europe. English] The history of the origins of representative government in Europe François Guizot; translated by Andrew R. Scoble. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-86597-124-2 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-86597-125-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Representative government and representation. 2. Representative government and representation—Europe—History. I. Title. jf1051 .g83713 2002 321.8'094—dc21 2001038083 Liberty Fund, Inc. 8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Suite 300 Indianapolis, Indiana 46250-1684 c 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 p 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 GuizotHistory_iv.indd 1 GuizotHistory_iv.indd 1 9/29/07 6:39:10 PM 9/29/07 6:39:10 PM ...