Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History: From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the First

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William Stubbs
Clarendon Press, 1888 - 552 páginas
 

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Página 543 - law. 8. That election of members of parliament ought to be free. 9. That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament. 10. That excessive bail
Página 542 - full and free representation of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done), for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare :— I. That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by
Página 544 - Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare. That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God. IV. Upon which their said Majesties did accept the Crown and royal dignity of the kingdoms of England,
Página 541 - assumed power. 4. By levying money for and to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, for other time, and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament. 5. By raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of
Página 541 - By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution of laws, without consent of Parliament. 3. By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the Great Seal for erecting a court, called the Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes.
Página 552 - A Papist, should be excluded, and are by that act made for ever uncapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and Government of this realm and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, or any part of the same, or to have, use, or exercise any regal power, authority, or
Página 543 - hereafter mentioned be taken by all persons of whom the oaths of allegiance and supremacy might be required by law, instead of them ; and that the said oaths of allegiance and supremacy be abrogated. IAB, do sincerely promise and «wear. That I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to their
Página 54 - rémanent. Sic ñeque agricultura, nee ratio atque usus belli intermittitur. Sed privati ac separati agri apud eos nihil est ; ñeque longius anno remanere uno in loco incolendi causa licet ; ñeque multum frumento sed maximam partem lacte atque pecore vivunt, multumque sunt in venationibus ; quae res et cibi genere et cotidiana exercitatione, et libértate vitae, cum a
Página 515 - nor prises, but by the common assent of the realm, and for the common profit thereof, saving the ancient aids and prises due and accustomed. VII. And for so much as the more part of the commonalty of the realm find themselves

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