Simon de Montfort : (c. 1208-65), Earl of Leicester; Anglo-Norman politician who led the opposition to Henry III, instigated the Barons’ War (1263-67), & established the Great Parliament of 1265 – the origin of the British system of representation.
... getting to the heart of them, making sure of their hidden secret, their deeper reality. Indeed it will not hurt any of us to put out of sight for a moment those vain and fantastic chimeras about Simon de Montfort and the gradual evolution of an Indian Parliament, with which certain politicians are fond of amusing us, and look things straight in the face. We must resolutely hold fast to the primary fact ...
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