Democracy in Europe: a History 1

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Democracy in Europe: a History 1
May, Thomas Erskine, 1815-1886
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ii. iv.
» See infra, pp. 296, 802, 806, 812.
V2 292 THE ITALIAN EBPUBLICS.
CHAP, chosen annually, its members were re-elected from the ^ — r-^— leading femilies, and became almost an hereditary body.
From the Council, a Committee of Sixty was chosen to advise the Doge, under the title of The Senate, to which other magistrates were added ; and this senate now be- came the deliberative assembly of the State.^ In 1297 a decree was passed^ for restricting admission to the ranks of the Great Council
..., by which the annual election was discontinued and a close hereditary chamber was founded. Henceforth the republic was entirely aristo- ratic. In 1311, the celebrated Coimcil of Ten was The .
coiincu established.* This powerful body, which henceforth governed the State with power Uttle less than absolute, was wholly aristocratic ; and its administration displayed that ambition, prudence, and statecraft which secmred for the Venetian repubUc a place, among the States of Europe, fax above its real importance.


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