The constitution of England, with life and notes by J. Macgregor |
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... minister of the Crown , was enfranchised , and allowed to return 53 members , and Ireland , instead of 100 , was allowed to return 105 members , being in all 658 members of the House of Commons . - Ed . Since that period the two ...
... minister of the Crown , was enfranchised , and allowed to return 53 members , and Ireland , instead of 100 , was allowed to return 105 members , being in all 658 members of the House of Commons . - Ed . Since that period the two ...
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... ministers , or , through 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 ...
... ministers , or , through 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 ...
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... ministers , the Lords of the Articles in Scot- land , and presented by them to the old Scottish parliaments . - Ed . Bills in the form of acts , according to modern form , were introduced into Parliament in the reign of Henry VI ...
... ministers , the Lords of the Articles in Scot- land , and presented by them to the old Scottish parliaments . - Ed . Bills in the form of acts , according to modern form , were introduced into Parliament in the reign of Henry VI ...
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... ministers . But no one provision in those treaties can be repugnant to acts of parliament ; and especially the navigation act , although many of its provisions have lately been abolished ; nor to the customs laws , nor especially to the ...
... ministers . But no one provision in those treaties can be repugnant to acts of parliament ; and especially the navigation act , although many of its provisions have lately been abolished ; nor to the customs laws , nor especially to the ...
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... 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 the people ought to be the legitimate and true end ...
... 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 the people ought to be the legitimate and true end ...
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Сторінка 202 - 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 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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