Dedication to the Collective Body of the People of England: In which the Source of Our Present Political Distractions are [sic] Pointed Out, and a Plan Proposed for Their Remedy and Redress. By the Earl of AbingdonW. Jackson, 1780 - 92 стор. |
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Сторінка xxvii - It can regulate or newmodel the succession to the crown; as was done in the reign of Henry VIII, and William III. It can alter the...
Сторінка xvi - THE king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong ; he can never mean to do an improper thing : in him is no folly or weakness.
Сторінка xxxviii - The power of the legislature is limited, not only by the general rules of natural justice, and the welfare of the community, but by the forms and principles of our particular constitution.
Сторінка xxxix - Abstracts from two Speeches of the late Earl of Chatham, and his Reply to the Earl of Suffolk.
Сторінка xxvii - ... It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of Parliaments themselves, as was done by the act of union and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It can, in short, do everything that is not naturally impossible; and therefore, some have not scrupled to call its power by a figure, rather too bold, the omnipotence of Parliament.
Сторінка xv - ... in a constitution like ours, the safety of the whole depends on the balance of the parts, and the balance of the parts on their mutual independency on one another...
Сторінка xxxix - The means of enforcing this thraldom are found to 'be as ridiculous and weak in practice, as they are unjust in principle Indeed I...
Сторінка lxxxv - As men have given up their natural independence to live under political laws, they have given up the natural community of goods to live under civil laws.
Сторінка xxxix - Resistance to your acts was necessary as it was just ; and your vain declarations of the omnipotence of Parliament, and your imperious doctrines of the necessity of submission, will be found equally impotent to convince or...
Сторінка xiii - Crown law carries the point of possession so far, that he holds that a king out of possession, is so far from having any right to our allegiance by any other title which he may set up against the king in being, that we are bound by the duty of our allegiance to resist him (») : a doctrine which he grounds upon the statute 11 Hen.