In a very distinct sense she was a democratic Sovereign, and under her régime the Estates were allowed a good deal of independent action in matters, at least, of local policy.
Although what is termed in France the old régime is still very near to us, few persons can now give an accurate answer to the question--How were the rural districts of France administered before 1789?
The conversion of the Moors to Christianity under the régime of the virtuous Archbishop of Granada was not rapid enough.
The Prefect Absolute Yet another institution which Napoleon gave to the Modern Régime in France is the Prefect of a Department.
Floquet, under the existing régime in France, is now the superior of M.
The curates, the rectors, the monks of France as a body, showed under the old régime the same qualities of devout faith and Christian sympathy with the people with which they met and baffled their persecutors after the crash of the monarchy.
Footnote 43: Probably an error for John Reed, at that time a newspaper correspondent in Mexico--afterward well known as a champion of the Bolshevist régime in Russia.
Montezuma; and over good stretches of the country the old tribal régime still represented the only form of political organization.
The most famous contributions to the London Magazine during Scott's régime were Lamb's Essays of Elia.
During his régime he wrote less than a score of articles for the review.
The old régime in the Philippines has disappeared forever.
We have now surveyed in its general aspects the old régime in the Philippines, and supplied the necessary material upon which to base a judgment of this contribution of Spain to the advancement of civilization.
Upon the new path he had entered, while judging the wrongs of the ancient régime and measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected attenuating circumstances.
The habits there displayed all sorts of involuntary refinement, which was the ancient régime itself, which lived though interred.
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There is no need, however, to extend the régime of compulsion over the whole field.
It opened a road never before trodden from social slavery towards social freedom, from the mediæval autocratic régime of fixed caste and hereditary status towards a régime of equal social justice.
If the same régime were extended over the whole area of production, we should have socialism itself and a mere soap-bubble bursting into fragments.
But it might be well before doing so to lay stress upon the fact that while admitting all the shortcomings and the injustices of the régime under which we have lived, I am not one of those who are able to see a short and single remedy.
How could one face a régime in which the everlasting taskmaster held control?
If there is everywhere complete economic freedom, then there will ensue in consequence a régime of social justice.
Her religious freedom is too well guaranteed under the present régime for her to risk change under an untried order of independence or annexation.
Following the military régime of the Conquest came the Quebec Act of 1774.
It is in pieces of that kind that the theatre is new, for under the old régime they would not have been permitted.
In the early days of the Bolshevik régime the Russians lost Northern Manchuria, which is now controlled by Japan.
If it is to be avoided, Japan must become more liberal; and Japan will only become more liberal if the present régime is discredited by failure.
There is of course a party which wishes to establish real Parliamentary government, but it is not likely to come into power unless the existing régime suffers some severe diplomatic humiliation.
His régime might have lasted but for the fact that, in 1915, he tried to become Emperor, and was met by a successful revolt.
McIlwraith: "Five years of a Nationalist régime would lead to hopeless chaos and disorder.
Also, many of the Hindu princes disliked the thought of a theocratic régime which might reduce them to shadows.
Their leader, Mohammed Farid Bey, issued from Geneva an official protest against "the new illegal régime proclaimed by England the 18th of last December.
Although Constantinople was subjected to the severest phase of Hamidian despotism, Vambéry wrote, "The old attachment of Turkey for the absolute régime is done for.
Afghanistan, like India, does not represent a capitalist state, and it is very unlikely that even a parliamentary régime will take deep root in these countries.
Accordingly, the Bolshevik government renounced all rights in Persia acquired by the Czarist régime and proclaimed themselves the friends of the Persian people against Western imperialism.
Up to this time I had been a neutral, if disgusted, spectator, but now I hoped the police and the whole imperial régime would pay bitterly for their insolence and stupidity.
The petition reflects the humiliating attitude of men who were standing on the boundary line between slavery and freedom, whose cast of mind had been formed under the régime of oppression and caprice.
But Russian Judaeophobia, more governmental than social, being fully in accord with the entire régime of absolutism, produced a system aiming not only at the disfranchisement, but also at the direct physical annihilation of the Jewish people.
However, it soon became clear that those who had fallen under the walls of Sevastopol had sealed by their death not the honor but the dishonor of the old régime of blood and iron.
They would be found as varied, as unjust and arbitrary, and as generous, as those of the old régime in France.
These women bore the heat and burden of a conflict in which all the blind prejudices of a fixed régime were strongly massed, presenting few promising points of attack.
Lifting men out of this morass, the proper practical, scientific and warlike forces came at length into play and we have the magnificent modern régime whose basis is armed strength.
Any Government clerk or roustabout, not to speak of functionaries in higher duties, was looked up to in a way unfamiliar in America, for under that continuous régime his position remained fixed for life.
Like a typical Yankee Gard, always greatly impressed by the general emphasis everywhere laid on the perfection of the Germans and their methods in everything, had regarded Anderson's remarks and hints about the spy régime as exaggerations.
He had praised the revolutionary régime because he believed it indispensable for the establishment of the republic; he had co-operated in the ruin of the Gironde, because he feared the dissensions of the republic.
They took advantage of all the opportunities of disorder which circumstances furnished them with, to attack the new régime and restore the old, by means of anarchy.
It was inconsistent to complain of an insurrection, and yet to provoke one, especially when it was to the profit of another party, for his was too weak to maintain itself against the ancient régime and the revolution.
They imagined that it would be compelled to be dependent on the multitude, or deprive itself entirely of its support; and in either case the return to the ancient régime appeared to them short and easy.
It was important to entrust the guardianship of the régime they were about to establish to those who had an interest in defending it.
This claim meant practically the restoration of the old Bobrikoff régime and was based on the same ideas as those underlying the February manifesto of 1899.
The adherents of the old Diaz régime took this opportunity to win him over to their side, for Orozco's fighting was done purely for profit, not for principle.
But the official group whose interests depended on the maintenance of the Diaz régime was, for the moment, too powerful, and it succeeded in inducing the President to accept reelection.
The resignation of Diaz and Corral was taken by many to signify the complete surrender of the old régime and the triumph of the revolution.
In 1792, by a wise and tolerant enactment, civil marriage and civil registration were established; but at the same time the revolt against the old ecclesiastical régime led to the sanction of free divorce.
Under the old domestic régime on both sides of the sea the woman who married entered legally, potentially, upon a life of financial bondage.
They can be trusted to make a bee-line for the real obstacle to peace and liberty--to eradicate the autocratic militaristic régime which enslaved the German people in order to enslave the world.
Every royal and official residence throughout the Empire was surrounded by an army of women with fixed bayonets, and before noon every unsubmissive member of the old régime would be in either a fortress or the common prison.
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