Changing population patterns created a particularly rotten political situation in the United Kingdom over a period of several hundred years. It remained uncorrected until the middle of the Nineteenth Century. The House of Commons, the lower house, has its roots all the way back in the Thirteenth Century in England. Each borough — roughly analogous to a town — could send two representatives or burgesses to Parliament, by Royal charter. Some boroughs gained this privilege as early as the 1295 Parliament of England assembled by King Edward I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n