A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 20

you/he/she had been his to avoid some practice, common on the Continent, of
king that divides their dominoes among their children, instead of leaving everybody
united to the the more old man. But the principle of the heredity, sounds enough in
national monarchy, was to prove very dangerous in the other spheres of
politics. Office brims to become hereditary, and to be concerned as the
private ownership of the family rather than a position of national
has trust, while escaping so national control and being prostituted for
personal ends. The earldomses in England were perverted this way;  originally
they was offices as the modern gentleman-lieutenancies of the counties;
they gradually became hereditary titles. The only remedy that the king had
it was to strip the earls of their power, and it submits him to a nominal
deputy, the sheriff. In France, the sheriff (_vice-comes_, _vicomte_)
become hereditary in his/her turn, and a struggle prolonged on the same
against tendency fights in England. Fortunately, the crown and country
triumphed on the hereditary principle in this respect;  the sheriff
remained an officer, and when viscounts were servants later, in
the imitation of the French nobility, they only received a meaningless and
harmless title comparatively.

Some also, disdain control you/he/she was held back on the crown that owes to a series
of successions disputed to the throne. The Anglo-Saxon monarchy had
always state in theory elective, and William had been accurate to observe
the form. His/her child, William II, due to get election in order to
you insure the throne against the applications of his/her brother older Robert, and
Henry that I have made to follow his/her example for similar reasons. Each had to do
election promises in the form of a rental;  and promises of election,
even if rarely they was kept, it had some value as memo to king of
their duties and theoretical dependence on the electors. Gradually,
the kings also, started to look for out support of their Norman barony,
and to understand that also strength's service English and submerged as a