Article abstract: The Model Parliament establishes an important precedent by joining the shire knights and town burgesses with the spiritual and temporal lords, resulting in the widest representation to that point in English parliamentary history.
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Political historians view the evolution of the English Parliament as one of the greatest legacies of the English Middle Ages to the theory and practice of representative democracy throughout the world. Parliament had its forerunners in both Anglo-Saxon and Norman traditions and practices. It...
Source: Chronology of European History, ©1997 Salem Press, Inc.. All Rights Reserved.
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