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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
MisterVeritis (06-08-2019)
No one said it was perfect, please stop making up strawmen to argue.
In terms of law, from the early into the later Middle Ages, law ruled, the old, tried and true and traditional law ruled of monarch and people, no one made law. In the late Middle Ages you get a struggle between popes and kings for absolute power, power to make law, kings won out...until the nobles and the common people, by Middle Age right of resistance, replaced the kings with democracy--you know, like the parliament Dickens wrote about. --That's a very rough outline of history that only a rare few here might detail and even correct--but not you who knows nothing of premodern times.
The problems with this democracy were two. One, it retained absolute power to top-down dictate law, abandoning the old law embodies in a bottom-up hierarchical community of communities. Two, unlike ancient Greek democracy, this new democracy was mass democracy which over time included all, not just those who had a stake in the game, so to speak, but those who in time found they could vote themselves largess from the public coffers. The combination lends itself to totalitarianism.
Me ignore? Why do you ignore history for pedantic terms you know nothing about?
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Peter1469 (06-08-2019)
I prefer not to impose my imagination on history.
Logic is universal, Who. Your arguments lack it. The emotional ad hom above is just one example. But getting back to your earlier claim, when are you going to connect the dots logically between a baker refusing service and mass starvation?
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Remarkable exchange. Who, you simply don't know what you're talking about. The link you provide does nothing whatsoever to support your claim the House of Lords held the power--weakened to "pretty." The link simply describes its structure and function.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler