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... Prerogative . IN reading the foregoing enumeration of the powers with which the laws of England have in- trusted the king , we are at a loss to reconcile them with the idea of a monarchy , which , we are told , is limited . The king not ...
... Prerogative . IN reading the foregoing enumeration of the powers with which the laws of England have in- trusted the king , we are at a loss to reconcile them with the idea of a monarchy , which , we are told , is limited . The king not ...
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... prerogative . Whenever abuses of power had taken place , which they were seriously determin- ed to correct , they made grievances and supplies ( to use the expression of Sir Thomas Wentworth ) go hand in hand together ; which always ...
... prerogative . Whenever abuses of power had taken place , which they were seriously determin- ed to correct , they made grievances and supplies ( to use the expression of Sir Thomas Wentworth ) go hand in hand together ; which always ...
Page 73
... prerogative of the com- mons , and the facility with which it may be ex- erted , however necessary for the first establish- ment of the constitution , might prove too consi- derable at present , when it is requisite only to support it ...
... prerogative of the com- mons , and the facility with which it may be ex- erted , however necessary for the first establish- ment of the constitution , might prove too consi- derable at present , when it is requisite only to support it ...
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... prerogative is , in a manner out of danger of an immediate attack , they have never- theless shown at all times the greatest jealously on its account . They never suffer , as we have observed before , a money - bill to begin any - where ...
... prerogative is , in a manner out of danger of an immediate attack , they have never- theless shown at all times the greatest jealously on its account . They never suffer , as we have observed before , a money - bill to begin any - where ...
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... prerogative of assenting to , and dissenting from , what bills it thinks proper , as well as of convening , proroguing , and dissolving the parliament when- ever it pleases , the latter have no assurance of having a regard paid to their ...
... prerogative of assenting to , and dissenting from , what bills it thinks proper , as well as of convening , proroguing , and dissolving the parliament when- ever it pleases , the latter have no assurance of having a regard paid to their ...
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Page 41 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 147 - And yet, early in the reign of Charles I. the court of king's bench, relying on some arbitrary precedents, and those perhaps misunderstood, determined that they could not upon a habeas corpus either bail or deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in case he was committed by the special command of the king, or by the lords of the privy council.
Page 52 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 52 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 267 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 149 - That officers and keepers neglecting to make due returns, or not delivering to the prisoner or his agent within six hours after demand a copy of the warrant of commitment, or shifting the custody of...
Page 269 - ... unlawful authority, it is a sufficient provocation to all people, out of compassion, much more so when it is done under colour of justice; and when the liberty of the subject is invaded, it is a provocation to all the subjects of England. A man ought to be concerned for Magna Charta and the laws ; and if any one against law imprison a man, he is an offender against Magna Charta.
Page 91 - It is a fundamental principle with the English lawyers, that Parliament can do every thing except making a woman a man, or a man a woman.
Page 27 - But it was nevertheless a great point gained, to have obtained the right of uttering their complaints, assembled in a body and in a legal way — to have acquired, instead of a dangerous resource of insurrections, a lawful and regular mean of influencing the motions of the government, and thenceforth to have become a part of it. Whatever disadvantage might attend the station at first allotted to the representatives of the people, it was soon to be compensated by the preponderance the people necessarily...
Page 58 - That if any member accepts an office under the crown, except an officer in the army or navy accepting a new commission, his seat is void ; but such member is capable of being re-elected.