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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... given to their petitions . In a word , every event of any consequence was attended with an increase of the power of the Commons ; -increases , indeed , but slow and gradual , but which were peaceably and legally effected , and were the ...
... given to their petitions . In a word , every event of any consequence was attended with an increase of the power of the Commons ; -increases , indeed , but slow and gradual , but which were peaceably and legally effected , and were the ...
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... given by Tacitus of Tiberius and the Roman senate . * The time , therefore , seemed to be arrived , at which Eng- victory of Cressy , and the rapid conquests of Henry V. , terminated after his death by his brother the Duke of Bedford ...
... given by Tacitus of Tiberius and the Roman senate . * The time , therefore , seemed to be arrived , at which Eng- victory of Cressy , and the rapid conquests of Henry V. , terminated after his death by his brother the Duke of Bedford ...
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... given to a family hereditarily despotic , it was finally determined that nations are not the property of kings . The principles of passive resistance , the divine and indefeasible right of kings , -in a word , the whole scaffolding of ...
... given to a family hereditarily despotic , it was finally determined that nations are not the property of kings . The principles of passive resistance , the divine and indefeasible right of kings , -in a word , the whole scaffolding of ...
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... given to others . Mandates from the Crown were sent to the sheriffs to return particular persons . Borough and county members were returned by one and the same indenture . It is asserted by Brady that Edward III . named all The ...
... given to others . Mandates from the Crown were sent to the sheriffs to return particular persons . Borough and county members were returned by one and the same indenture . It is asserted by Brady that Edward III . named all The ...
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... given entertainments to the electors of a place , or to any of them , in order to his being elected , shall be incapable of serving for that place in parliament ; and that if any person gives , or promises to give , any money ...
... given entertainments to the electors of a place , or to any of them , in order to his being elected , shall be incapable of serving for that place in parliament ; and that if any person gives , or promises to give , any money ...
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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.