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Excerpt from Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 2
In this enquiry I do not think it necessary to enter into. A question, which has been strenu ous] y agitated; whether the sovereignty of the Norman kings of England was founded on a free election, or on the right of conquest. The authorities quoted by Hume contain abundant proof, that the government of William I. Was, in his own time, regarded as established by force, and exercised with violence. This is the only important consideration in respect to the character of the government, as it was then con stituted. The controversy, which began more than five centuries after the Norman revolution, had its origin in the adulation of the clergy.
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