A Short Constitutional History of EnglandGinn, 1895 - 358 páginas |
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... Petitions Ordinances Initiation of Legislation Bills Private Bills Legislative powers of the Crown Proclamations · The Dispensing power The Suspending power Chief legislative acts to 1295 I I I I I I 13 14 14 14 14 14 • 141 149 . 159 ...
... Petitions Ordinances Initiation of Legislation Bills Private Bills Legislative powers of the Crown Proclamations · The Dispensing power The Suspending power Chief legislative acts to 1295 I I I I I I 13 14 14 14 14 14 • 141 149 . 159 ...
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... Petitions Political Agitation Official Ranks Ealdorman Sheriff . Itinerant Justices Conservators of the Peace Lord Lieutenant Justiciar Lord High Chancellor Lord High Treasurer Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Privy Seal Secretaries of ...
... Petitions Political Agitation Official Ranks Ealdorman Sheriff . Itinerant Justices Conservators of the Peace Lord Lieutenant Justiciar Lord High Chancellor Lord High Treasurer Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Privy Seal Secretaries of ...
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... Petition of Right , 1628 , and held to be so by the Judges , 1637. In March , 1299 , Edward was obliged to confirm the Charters of the Forests ; a reservation , Salvo jure coronæ nostræ , ' evoked such hostility that a fresh ...
... Petition of Right , 1628 , and held to be so by the Judges , 1637. In March , 1299 , Edward was obliged to confirm the Charters of the Forests ; a reservation , Salvo jure coronæ nostræ , ' evoked such hostility that a fresh ...
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... petition of the Lords and Commons , that the King's prerogative was unaffected by the legislation of his reign or those of his progenitors ' . ' Gradually the royal policy changed . Richard abandoned his con- stitutional attitude ( 1397 ) ...
... petition of the Lords and Commons , that the King's prerogative was unaffected by the legislation of his reign or those of his progenitors ' . ' Gradually the royal policy changed . Richard abandoned his con- stitutional attitude ( 1397 ) ...
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... petitions on which they were based , and in the reign of Henry VI the practice arose of presenting Bills drawn as statutes , in place of petitions . Parliament was consulted on matters of foreign policy , and freely exercised its right ...
... petitions on which they were based , and in the reign of Henry VI the practice arose of presenting Bills drawn as statutes , in place of petitions . Parliament was consulted on matters of foreign policy , and freely exercised its right ...
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abolished Anglo-Saxon Anson appointed Archbishop Assize Assize of Clarendon barons became Bill bishops boroughs Chancellor Charters Church clergy Commons consent Convocation Court Crown Curia Regis customs declared duty ealdorman Earl ecclesiastical Edward Edward III elected England English Exchequer felony feudal forests fyrd gild granted Habeas Corpus held Henry III Henry VIII Hist House hundred illegal impeachment imprisoned issued John judges judicial jurisdiction jury justice King King's knights land legislation levy libel liberties London Lord Magna Carta matters ment merchants military militia Norman Conquest oath offence Parliament Parliamentary passed peace Peers persons petition Pope privileges Provisions of Oxford punished Reform refused regulated reign of Henry Richard royal scutage Sheriff shire Sovereign Star Chamber Statute Stubbs summoned tallage taxation temp tenure thegns tithes towns treason Tudors Vict villeins wergild Westminster whilst William writ
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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.