Sentences with phrase «feudal monarchs»

Unlock Government: The combination of the inherited powers of feudal monarchs, modern media's concentration on the Prime Minster and overuse of the party whip has turned Britain in to one of the most centralised countries in Europe.

Parliamentary scrutiny — suffering from executive powers which still ultimately derive from those of the feudal monarch.

Not exact matches

However, as time passed and long before the appearance of Protestantism, monarchs began to overcome the feudal nobility.

Nation - states under monarchs with mounting power were bringing together areas formerly loosely bound together by feudal ties.

He argues that prebendalism is the most appropriate conceptual notion for explaining Nigeria's politicians intense and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices of the state and defines prebendalism in terms of «the historical association of the term «prebend» with the offices of certain feudal states which could be obtained through services rendered to a lord or monarch or through outright purchase by supplicants... the adjective «prebendal» will refer to patterns of political behaviour which rest on the justifying principle that such offices should be competed for and then utilised for the personal benefit of office holders as well as their reference or support group.

Is it, moreover, prepared to rely on arguments that because the monarch of a feudal society approves or knows about a payment there may not be a bribe at law?