The Constitution of England: Or, An Account of the English Government: in which it is Compared Both with the Republican Form of Government and the Other Monarchies in EuropeH. G. Bohn, 1853 - 376 стор. |
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... feudal government , found itself , in the issue , composed of a number of parts simply placed by each other , and without any reciprocal adherence , the kingdom of England , on the contrary , from the sudden and violent introduction of ...
... feudal government , found itself , in the issue , composed of a number of parts simply placed by each other , and without any reciprocal adherence , the kingdom of England , on the contrary , from the sudden and violent introduction of ...
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... feudal government , as esta- blished in England , being connected by tenures exactly similar , the same maxims which were laid down as true against the lord paramount , in behalf of the lord of an upper fief , were likewise to be ...
... feudal government , as esta- blished in England , being connected by tenures exactly similar , the same maxims which were laid down as true against the lord paramount , in behalf of the lord of an upper fief , were likewise to be ...
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... feudal laws in favour of the lords , but also annexed as a condition to the charter he granted , that the lords should allow the same freedom to their respective vassals . Care was even taken to abolish those laws of the Conqueror which ...
... feudal laws in favour of the lords , but also annexed as a condition to the charter he granted , that the lords should allow the same freedom to their respective vassals . Care was even taken to abolish those laws of the Conqueror which ...
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... feudal laws was greatly mitigated in favour of the lords . But this charter did not stop there ; conditions were also stipulated in favour of the numerous body of the people who had con- curred to obtain it , and who claimed , with ...
... feudal laws was greatly mitigated in favour of the lords . But this charter did not stop there ; conditions were also stipulated in favour of the numerous body of the people who had con- curred to obtain it , and who claimed , with ...
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... 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 nobility incessantly engaged in ...
... 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 nobility incessantly engaged in ...
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Сторінка 342 - 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 343 - 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.
Сторінка 189 - Sense taken for a malicious Defamation, expressed either in Printing or Writing, and tending either to blacken the Memory of one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public Hatred, Contempt or Ridicule.
Сторінка 338 - 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.
Сторінка 77 - 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 51 - An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown.
Сторінка 76 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.
Сторінка 344 - ... will entirely lose its force when it is shown by a reasonable exertion of the laws that the press cannot be abused to any bad purpose without incurring a suitable punishment, whereas it never can be used to any good one when under the control of an Inspector. So true will it be found that to censure the licentiousness is to maintain the liberty of the press."—Blackstone, B.
Сторінка 369 - DRESS AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time. With an Historical Inquiry into every branch of Costume, Ancient and Modern.