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Excerpt from The History of Parliamentary Taxation in England The Contributions of the Landed Man to Civil Liberty, by Elwin Lawrence Page. The subject of the following essay was an nounced in 1906 by the late Henry Loomis Nelson, then David A. Wells Professor of P0 litical Science. As first framed it read, The Origin and Growth of the Power of the English National Council and Parliament to Levy Taxes, from the Time of the Norman Con quest to the Enactment of the Bill of Rights; Together with a Statement of the Constitu tional Law of the United States Governing Taxation. Mr. Nelson subsequently climi nated the last clause, thus restricting the field of the essay to English Constitutional History. The prize was awarded in 1907. Since the death of Mr. Nelson in 1908, the task of edit ing the successful essay has been given to the undersigned in cooperation with the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.