A Short Constitutional History of EnglandGinn, 1895 - 358 páginas |
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... hold castles against the Queen , or to attempt to rescue prisoners ( 14 Eliz . cc . 1 , 2 ) . In 1661 ( 13 Car . II , st . 1 , c . 1 ) , it was made treason to imagine any bodily injury to the King ; in 1702 , to hinder , or attempt to ...
... hold castles against the Queen , or to attempt to rescue prisoners ( 14 Eliz . cc . 1 , 2 ) . In 1661 ( 13 Car . II , st . 1 , c . 1 ) , it was made treason to imagine any bodily injury to the King ; in 1702 , to hinder , or attempt to ...
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... hold and to restrain the alienation of crown lands : while the constitutional principle that redress precedes supply was foreshadowed in the events of 1339 . In judicial matters , two important privileges were won . The Commons asserted ...
... hold and to restrain the alienation of crown lands : while the constitutional principle that redress precedes supply was foreshadowed in the events of 1339 . In judicial matters , two important privileges were won . The Commons asserted ...
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... holds lands . Allegiance is the duty , which every man owed , to be faithful to the head of the nation , land or no land . But , as the King was supreme landowner and judge , the idea of homage and fealty were merged in Allegiance ...
... holds lands . Allegiance is the duty , which every man owed , to be faithful to the head of the nation , land or no land . But , as the King was supreme landowner and judge , the idea of homage and fealty were merged in Allegiance ...
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... hold a Synod in some far distant part 2. The words used by Bede , in describing the circumstance , are ' Adjutorio usus Ædilbercti regis . ' sort . Queen Consort ( Cwen , the wife ) , at first occupied a high Queen Con- position , owing ...
... hold a Synod in some far distant part 2. The words used by Bede , in describing the circumstance , are ' Adjutorio usus Ædilbercti regis . ' sort . Queen Consort ( Cwen , the wife ) , at first occupied a high Queen Con- position , owing ...
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... hold officers , the two archbishops by prescriptive right , the judges , certain prelates , nobles , and other persons summoned as Councillors1 . ' When all these were called together it was a full Council , but , where the business was ...
... hold officers , the two archbishops by prescriptive right , the judges , certain prelates , nobles , and other persons summoned as Councillors1 . ' When all these were called together it was a full Council , but , where the business was ...
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Página 147 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Página 240 - But the great and efficacious writ, in all manner of illegal confinement, is that of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum; directed to the person detaining another, and commanding him to produce the body of the prisoner, with the day and cause of his caption and detention, ad faciendum, subjiciendum, et recipiendum, to do, submit to, and receive whatsoever the judge or court awarding such writ shall consider in that behalf.
Página 14 - That King James the Second, 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.
Página 248 - And what have been the results of agitation upon the legislation of the country? Not a measure has been forced upon Parliament, which the calm judgment of a later time has not since approved : not an agitation has failed, which posterity has not condemned.
Página 45 - Act shall take effect all matters and things relating to the well governing of this kingdom which are properly cognizable in the Privy Council by the laws and customs of this realm shall be transacted there, and all resolutions taken thereupon shall be signed by such of the Privy Council as shall advise and consent to the same.
Página 108 - 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.
Página 329 - ... committed or restrained, unto or before the lord chancellor, or lord keeper of the great seal of England for the time being, or the judges or barons of the said court from whence the said...
Página 114 - Resolved, &c., iiemine contradicente, that in all aids given to the king by the Commons the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords. (ii) 3 July 1678 Resolved, &c., that all aids and supplies, and aids to his Majesty in Parliament, are the sole gift of the Commons ; and all bills for the granting of any such aids...
Página 20 - the matters to be established for the estate of the king and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, should be treated, accorded, and established in parliament, by the king and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm, according as had been before accustomed.