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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... influence , and were slavish voters . - Ed . One means of introducing corruption into the House of Commons was by creating new boroughs ; and the sovereigns of England increased those to a most profligate extent in Cornwall and in ...
... influence , and were slavish voters . - Ed . One means of introducing corruption into the House of Commons was by creating new boroughs ; and the sovereigns of England increased those to a most profligate extent in Cornwall and in ...
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... influence his vote , he , as well as the voter himself , shall be condemned to pay a fine of five hun- dred pounds , and for ever disqualified to vote , and hold any office in a corporation , -the faculty , however , being reserved . to ...
... influence his vote , he , as well as the voter himself , shall be condemned to pay a fine of five hun- dred pounds , and for ever disqualified to vote , and hold any office in a corporation , -the faculty , however , being reserved . to ...
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... influence , by the barons and ecclesi- astics . Bolingbroke shrewdly observes , that the king , the barons , and the clergy , were all in reality the enemies of public liberty . The party of each were as many factions in the nation ...
... influence , by the barons and ecclesi- astics . Bolingbroke shrewdly observes , that the king , the barons , and the clergy , were all in reality the enemies of public liberty . The party of each were as many factions in the nation ...
Сторінка 63
... influenced by unworthy favourites or un- principled ministers . Louis XIV . was a remarkable example of acting upon an education which made him consider the kingdom and his subjects as his property . Charles I. was another . The good of ...
... influenced by unworthy favourites or un- principled ministers . Louis XIV . was a remarkable example of acting upon an education which made him consider the kingdom and his subjects as his property . Charles I. was another . The good of ...
Сторінка 68
... influence of the Commons , but yet puts him in a condition to support the dignity of the crown , and affords him , who is the first magis- trate in the nation , that independence which the laws insure also to those magistrates who are ...
... influence of the Commons , but yet puts him in a condition to support the dignity of the crown , and affords him , who is the first magis- trate in the nation , that independence which the laws insure also to those magistrates who are ...
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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.