A century later, this remains unfinished business, and so a legislature based on feudal patronage goes on.
A childhood in the rough hills of southern Scotland didn't help: there were manses, not vicarages, in the Borders, and a more outspoken democratic spirit against the feudal set-up that prevailed there.
The feudal system, the Reformation, the Renaissance, the contact with the New World, the growth of industrialism - all of these suggest at once experiences that are not peculiar to England.
To understand her development you must know how other members of the same society have behaved and developed, what they in their turn have made of the feudal system, the Reformation, and the rest.
After the election she complained that Exmoor was a feudal society and went to live in Iran.
It was about rights of feudal lords under their king, rights they chose not to extend to their own fiefdoms.
The shock precipitated the end of Japan's feudal era and ushered in its breakneck industrialisation and military expansion.The little kingdom's end was coming.
"We will never again allow the appropriation of any part of Georgia by bandits, narcotics dealers and local feudal lords".
Certainly its courts are weak, its leaders' habits feudal, its journalists sometimes harassed and its human-rights record far from spotless.
America's money politics, the target of another editor's valedictory in 1993, looks ever grubbier and more feudal, with a Bush v Clinton contest beckoning in 2016.The only way to feel good about American democracy is to set it beside Brussels.
But who else do have the Palestinians have?THE PERSIAN GULF AT THE MILLENNIUM..Edited by Gary Sick and Lawrence Potter.St Martin's; 366 pages; $49.95Macmillan £40THEE Gulf, its oil and its twitchiness have partly taken over from the Arab-Israeli conflict as a western cause for concern: there is, after all, Iraq, Iran, Islamism, the despotism of feudal rulers and much else to worry about.
