rliament over the Stuarts--The
Democratic Protest: Lilburne--Winstanley and "The Diggers"--The Restoration

CHAPTER V

CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT--ARISTOCRACY TRIUMPHANT

Government by Aristocrats--Civil and Religious Liberty--Growth of Cabinet
Rule--Walpole's rule--The Change in the House of Lords--"Wilkes and
Liberty"

CHAPTER VI

THE RISE OF THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA

The Witness of the Middle Ages--The "Social Contract" Theory--Thomas
Hobbes--John Locke--Rousseau and French Revolution--American
Independence--Thomas Paine--Major Cartwright and the "Radical
Reformers"--Thomas Spence--Practical Politics and Democratic Ideals

CHAPTER VII

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AND THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE PEOPLE

The Industrial Revolution--The Need for Parliamentary Reform--Manufacturing
Centres Unrepresented in Parliament--The Passage of the Great Reform
Bill--The Working Class still Unrepresented--Chartism--The Hyde Park
Railings, 1866--Household Suffrage--Working-class Representation in
Parliament--Removal of Religious Disabilities: Catholics, Jews and
Freethinkers--The Enfranchisement of Women

CHAPTER VIII

DEMOCRACY AT WORK

Local Government--The Workman in the House of Commons--Working-class
Leaders in Parliament--The Present Position of the House of Lords--The
Popularity of the Crown--The Democratic Ideals: Socialism and Social
Reform--Land Reform and the Single Tax

CHAPTER IX

THE WORLD-WIDE MOVEMENT: ITS STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS

East and West--Tyranny under Democratic Forms--The Obvious Dangers--Party
Government--Bureaucracy--Working-Class Ascendancy--On Behalf of Democracy

LIST OF PLATES

KING JOHN GRANTING MAGNA CHARTA

MAGNA CHARTA--A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

SIR JOHN ELIOT

JOHN HAMPDEN

THE GORDON RIOTS

THE RIGHT HON. JOHN BURNS, M.P.

THE RIGHT HON. D. LLOYD GEORGE, M.P.

THE PASSING OF THE PARLIAMENT BILL IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS

THE RISE OF THE DEMOCRACY

INTRODUCTION

THE BRITISH INFLUENCE

Our business here is to give some plain account of the movement towards
democracy in England, only touching incidentally on the progress of that
movement in other parts of the world. Mainly through British influences the
movement has become world wide; and the desire for national
self-government, and the adoption of the political instruments of
democracy--popular enfranchisement and the rule of elected
representatives--are still the aspirations of civ