“England is the mother of Parliaments.”

—  John Bright

Speech at Birmingham, (18 January 1865)
1860s
Context: We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.

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British Radical and Liberal statesman 1811–1889

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