The constitution of England, with life and notes by J. Macgregor |
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... continued in a serfage state . - Ed . ] The Magna Charta is the first recognised statute or written law , although we have transcripts of parts of the Anglo - Saxon laws of Ina , Alfred , and Edward the Confessor , upon which the common ...
... continued in a serfage state . - Ed . ] The Magna Charta is the first recognised statute or written law , although we have transcripts of parts of the Anglo - Saxon laws of Ina , Alfred , and Edward the Confessor , upon which the common ...
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... continued to be extreme : the feudal government still continued to diffuse oppression and misery ; and such was the confusion of it , that it even took away all hopes of amendment . France , still bleeding from the extravagance of a ...
... continued to be extreme : the feudal government still continued to diffuse oppression and misery ; and such was the confusion of it , that it even took away all hopes of amendment . France , still bleeding from the extravagance of a ...
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... continued elective , the emperors , though vested with more high - sounding prerogatives than even the kings of France , laboured under very essential disadvantages : they could not pursue a plan of aggrandisement with the same ...
... continued elective , the emperors , though vested with more high - sounding prerogatives than even the kings of France , laboured under very essential disadvantages : they could not pursue a plan of aggrandisement with the same ...
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... CONTINUED . THE representatives of the nation , and of the whole nation , were now admitted into parliament ; the great point there- * This is perhaps the most erroneous assertion in the whole Essay . The feudal system caused no good to ...
... CONTINUED . THE representatives of the nation , and of the whole nation , were now admitted into parliament ; the great point there- * This is perhaps the most erroneous assertion in the whole Essay . The feudal system caused no good to ...
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... continued until the Peers refused to receive any Money Bills to which conditions were attached . - Ed . + It was under Edward III . and Richard II . that the statutes of pro- visors and præmunire were enacted , by which all persons ...
... continued until the Peers refused to receive any Money Bills to which conditions were attached . - Ed . + It was under Edward III . and Richard II . that the statutes of pro- visors and præmunire were enacted , by which all persons ...
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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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