The book The Citizen His Rights And Responsibilities was written by author Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923 Here you can read free online of The Citizen His Rights And Responsibilities book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Citizen His Rights And Responsibilities a good or bad book?
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There was a time gative i (1) Tribal when the king of England was simply like the chiefdom. , . , . , TT i i i i cniei or a tribe. He led his people in war, trans- acted their affairs in peace, and acted as judge in the most important cases. Traces of this power still remain, and this is the first source of the royal prerogative. At a later period the king was the head of what is called the feudal system. Under this he was regarded as the ultimate (2) Feudal possessor of the soil. He gave estat...es out of it to various persons, who swore to be subject to him, and who were in return obliged to serve him in war. From this source the sovereign possesses the right of property of THE CROWN. 73 which there is no certain owner, to treasure trove, and to the custody of idiots and lunatics. The third source is derived from the theories invented by lawyers, who were accustomed to say that the king never dies, and that he can do no wrong. It was found con- (3) Theory of venient in law to assume that the king never dies, permanence, and that the throne is never vacant; also, in order to secure the responsibility of ministers, to create the fiction that the king can not only do no wrong, but not even think wrong, that he can never mean to do an improper thing, that in him is no folly or weakness.
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