1972•The American Historical ReviewRequires access

Bills and Acts: Legislative Procedure in Eighteenth-Century England

John M. Beattie, Sheila Lambert

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1. Robert Harper and parliamentary agency 2. Treatises and handbooks 3. The clerks: fees and agency 4. Parliamentary business 5. Private bill procedure 6. Estate bills 7. Inclosure bills 8. Local bills 9. Promulgation of the statutes 10. Conclusion.

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1. Robert Harper and parliamentary agency 2. Treatises and handbooks 3. The clerks: fees and agency 4. Parliamentary business 5. Private bill procedure 6. Estate bills 7. Inclosure bills 8. Local bills 9. Promulgation of the statutes 10. Conclusion.

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1. Robert Harper and parliamentary agency 2. Treatises and handbooks 3. The clerks: fees and agency 4. Parliamentary business 5. Private bill procedure 6. Estate bills 7. Inclosure bills 8. Local bills 9. Promulgation of the statutes 10. Conclusion.

Key concepts: Promulgation, Estate, Legislature, Agency (philosophy), Statute, Law, Public administration, Political science

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