...are indicated in bold type. Dates of repeal are given in footnotes. An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject. 01. Whereas in the first year of the reign of your Majesty, and of our late most gracious sovereign...

...enhanced its position in foreign policy. Entitled program mat ically, 'An act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject', it had stipulated 'that in case the crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter come to...

...supplemented by an Act of Settlement in 1701, which plainly stated that it was 'for the further limitation of the Crown and better securing the rights and liberties of the subjects'. Taken together these three instruments, according to Whig historiography, sanctified the...

...least every three years. The Act of Settlement (whose long tide was 'an Act for the further limitation of the Crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject') added to the provisions of the Bill of Rights concerning the Protestant succession. Inspired by Louis...

...altered, but by act of parliament. By the statute 13. W. III. c. 2. " An act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject," provision is made, -that after the said limitation shall take effect, the commissions of the judges...

...underlines the correlation between limiting monarchy and securing rights: "An act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject." 11 On the idea of limited government as essence of modern constitutionalism, cf. Carl J. Friedrich,...