Download or read book The King's Parliament of England written by George Osborne Sayles and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1974 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among England's many contributions to western civilization, the development of a workable democracy is easily the most important. And while democratic institutions have been adopted by other than English - a creation of centuries of trial and error. A great deal is known about the recent history of parliaments. Less understood, however, are the origins of the English Parliament during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.