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Constitutional assemblies of the Roman citizens for electing magistrates, putting some question to the vote of the people, the declaration of war, etc.
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The name given for the effect given in one country to the laws and institutions of another in dealing with a native of it.
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His memoirs of the Gallic and Civil Wars, reckoned the most perfect model of narration that in such circumstances was ever written, and a masterpiece.
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A committee of nine created by the French Convention, April 6, 1793, to concentrate the power of the executive, "the conscience of Marat, who could see salvation in one thing only, in the fall of 260,000 aristocrats' heads"; notable, therefore, for its excesses in that line; was not suppressed till Oct. 19, 1796, on the advent of the Directory to power.
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Is law established by usage and confirmed by judicial decision.
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Community of property in a State.
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Name of a dynasty of six emperors of Constantinople.
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An archipelago of four volcanic islands at the N. of the channel of Mozambique; under the protectorate of France since 1886; the people are Mohammedans, and speak Arabic.
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An Italian philologist; his writings are numerous; b. 1835.
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A quiet old town in the dep. of Oise, 50 m. NE. of Paris; has some fine old churches, but the chief edifice is the palace, built by St. Louis and rebuilt by Louis XIV., where the marriage of Napoleon to Maria Louisa was celebrated; here Joan of Arc was made prisoner in 1430, and Louis Napoleon had hunting ground.
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