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by Paul Rosenberg
The Daily Bell
“The natural progress of things,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground.” Today we’ll see how this process began in Europe, and one of the first steps in the evolution of European law.
Continued from last week…
THE GUILDS
Medieval guilds were exclusive organizations, created to preserve the rights and privileges of their members. The guild was self-created power. (Again, the Europeans seeing to things themselves.) The guild was separate and distinct from the civic governments, although wealthy guildsmen soon enough sought positions in city governments and blurred the lines.
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