The constitution of England, with life and notes by J. Macgregor |
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... Crown accidentally informed me , about a year afterwards , that the noble Lord here alluded to had lent him my ... crowns for me to a bookseller's in Fleet Street . A lady brought them in a coach , who took a receipt . As she was , by ...
... Crown accidentally informed me , about a year afterwards , that the noble Lord here alluded to had lent him my ... crowns for me to a bookseller's in Fleet Street . A lady brought them in a coach , who took a receipt . As she was , by ...
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... Crown . As one proof of this peculiar solidity , it is remarked , in that chapter , that all the inonarchs who ever existed , in any part of the world , were never able to maintain their ground against certain powerful subjects ( or a ...
... Crown . As one proof of this peculiar solidity , it is remarked , in that chapter , that all the inonarchs who ever existed , in any part of the world , were never able to maintain their ground against certain powerful subjects ( or a ...
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... crown , and exhibits a much more complete delineation of the advan- tages that result from that stability in favour of public liberty . These advantages may be enumerated in the following order : -I . The numerous restraints the ...
... crown , and exhibits a much more complete delineation of the advan- tages that result from that stability in favour of public liberty . These advantages may be enumerated in the following order : -I . The numerous restraints the ...
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... crown , which in fact was a fief , hereditary in his own family , he established the here- ditariship of fiefs as a general principle ; and from this epoch authors date the complete establishment of the feudal system in France . On the ...
... crown , which in fact was a fief , hereditary in his own family , he established the here- ditariship of fiefs as a general principle ; and from this epoch authors date the complete establishment of the feudal system in France . On the ...
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Jean Louis de Lolme. so that if Hugh Capet , by rendering the crown hereditary , laid the foundation of the greatness of his family , and of the crown itself , yet he added little to his own authority , and acquired scarcely anything ...
Jean Louis de Lolme. so that if Hugh Capet , by rendering the crown hereditary , laid the foundation of the greatness of his family , and of the crown itself , yet he added little to his own authority , and acquired scarcely anything ...
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Сторінка 76 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Сторінка 355 - 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.
Сторінка 353 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
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Сторінка 352 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Сторінка 76 - The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep : so help me God :" and then shall kiss the book (12).
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Сторінка 356 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter, when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
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