GOVERNMENT.
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Legislative, Executive, Judicial, deciding what
framing laws executing laws law is, and whether it
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| | Civil Ecclesiastical
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Legal Arbitrary Legal Arbitrary Legal Arbitrary Legal Arbitrary
Legislative,
framing laws
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Legal Arbitrary
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| | | freeholders freeholders inhabitants |
| | | holding by holding by of certain |
| | | free socage, feudal towns |
| | | who elect service, elect |
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| | about 120 | | |
| 26 bishops peers about 100 about |
| and sitting by knights of 400 |
| archbishops hereditary shires burgesses |
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King House of Lords House of Commons King who
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Parliament |
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makes grants makes raises loans,
laws subsidies and proclamations ship-money,
customs in council grants
monopolies
Executive,
executing laws
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Legal Arbitrary
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King who in King who by
the eye of prerogative
the law can |
‘do no wrong’ |
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makes treaties, declares war, arrests by personal mandate,
but has no standing army, and imprisons without habeas
has no money without Parliament; corpus, billets soldiers
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secretaries and appoints sheriffs
councillors appointed lords-lieutenant, enforce
and removed by king, but and officers of decisions
in the eye of the law militia by sea of judges
‘responsible;’ carrying and land
out laws and collecting
revenue through their
agents
Judicial, deciding what
law is, and whether it
is broken or not.
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| Ecclesiastical
Civil Courts Courts. No
| trial by jury
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Legal Arbitrary Legal Arbitrary
| No trial | |
| by jury | |
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Equity Common law. | | |
| Trial by jury | | |
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Court of +——King’s +——Council Courts of High
Chancery; | Bench | Board bishops Commission;
lord chancellor | (Note A) | (Note B) who were judges
appointed | | appointed appointed
by king +——Common +——Star by king by king
| Pleas | Chamber
| (Note A) | (Note C)
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+——Exchequer +——Council
(Note A) of North
(Note D)