Roman Christianity's organization was based on bishops' and archbishops' control of territorial units called diocese. The word diocese comes from a Greek word which means 'administration'. In the Middle Ages, some bishops even held political power aside from their religious power. A diocese is further divided into parishes which fall under the management of priests.
<span>England acquired the lands in France when Eleanor married Henry II of England. Eleanor had a previous marriage that was annulled in 1152 AD, where she was married to a French noble, and had a substantial amount of land to her name. Henry marrying her allowed for this acquisition to occur.</span>
I believe it's "original jurisdiction."
In the <em>Declaration of Independence</em>, Thomas Jefferson expressed various grievances of the colonists against the British, such as:
- The king refused to assent to laws that were wholesome and necessary for the public good.
- The king had forbidden colonial governors to enact laws or implement laws without his assent (which, as the prior point noted, he was in no hurry to give).
- The king forced people to give up their rights to legislative assembly or forced legislative bodies to meet in difficult places that imposed hardships on them.
- The king dissolved legislative assemblies and then refused for a long time to have other assemblies elected.
- The king obstructed justice in the colonies and made judges dependent on his will alone for their salaries and their tenure in office.
- The king kept standing armies in place in the colonies in peacetime, without the consent of the colonial legislatures.
- The king imposed taxes without the colonists' consent.
There were more items listed by Jefferson, but you get the idea. He was justifying revolution by proving tyranny was standard operating procedure by the British monarchy.
