 | E. S. Creasy - 1854 - 468 pages
...authority of all the subjects' rights. The conclusion of the Act of Settlement is as follows:— " IV. And whereas the laws of England are the birthright of...the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same: the said Lords spiritual... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 860 pages
...was enacted the 12th and 13th statutes of "William III, the 2d chapter of which reads thus : " That the laws of England are the birthright of the people...ascend the throne of this realm ought to administer the same according to the said laws ; and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1858 - 718 pages
...difficulties concerning this matter, it is expressly declared by statute 12 & 13 Will. III. c. 2, " that the laws of England are the " birthright of the people...same according to " the said laws : and all their officers and ministers ought " to serve them respectively according to the same : and " therefore all... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 536 pages
...under the great seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment by the commons in Parliament. " And whereas the laws of England are the birthright of...the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same, the said lords spiritual... | |
 | David Rowland - Constitutional history - 1859 - 606 pages
...securing the rights and liberties of the subject," called the Act of Settlement,3 which declared " that the laws of England are the birthright of the people...the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same."4 This obligation is... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1859 - 854 pages
...the laws and customs of the same."1 The Act 12 & 13 William III. Limitations of c. 2, affirms "that the laws of England are the birthright of the people...government of the same according to the said laws; a^id all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same." And... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...difficulties concerning thie matter, it is expressly declared by statute 12 & 13 W. III. c. 2, "that the laws of England are the birthright of the people...the same according to the said laws; and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same: and therefore all the... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...under the Great Seal of England be pleadable to an Impeachment by the Commons in Parliament. " And whereas the Laws of England are the Birth-right of...the same according to the said Laws, and all their Officers and Ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same " — The said Lords... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - Great Britain - 1864 - 120 pages
...This fundamental principle was expressly laid down in the Act of Settlement, which declared " that the laws of England are the birthright of the people...the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same." The same obligation... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...and also the law, by which he was made a "king." For "the laws of England (12 & 13 Will III., c. 2) are " the birthright of the people thereof; and all..."government of the same according to the said laws." The terms of what is sometimes called the original contract «between king and people, are contained... | |
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And whereas the Laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof, and all the Kings and Queens, who shall ascend the Throne of this realm, ought to administer the Government of the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers... 
