NPI Annotation English BAWE "Ever"

There existed parliamentary institutions, the Landtag, across many states of the Holy Roman Empire; in Hesse, a diet for taxation met to form gravamina that were presented to the Landsgrave for consideration. Informally, the people also actively acknowledged their right to present petitions and grievances to ''exercise real influence on the process of legislation and administration''. MPs within the House of Commons accepted the right to petition, with an Essex MP receiving a petition containing over thirty thousand signatures. Where absolutism was not secure, rulers consulted subjects on