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... Britain , where they are representative , have each , it is true , been modelled on the legislature of the mother country . They each , however , in outward form and structure , consciously depart from their original . Each colony has ...
... Britain , where they are representative , have each , it is true , been modelled on the legislature of the mother country . They each , however , in outward form and structure , consciously depart from their original . Each colony has ...
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... Britain and Ireland , the dangers which proved fatal to a former Irish Consti- tution . In the following pages I will endeavour to sketch in outline the constitution of the Irish House of Lords ( chapter i . ) and of the Irish House of ...
... Britain and Ireland , the dangers which proved fatal to a former Irish Consti- tution . In the following pages I will endeavour to sketch in outline the constitution of the Irish House of Lords ( chapter i . ) and of the Irish House of ...
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... Britain forms one of the propositions in Mr. Grattan's cele- brated address to the Crown of the 16th April , 1782. * " The Crowns of both nations , " says Mr. Flood , " are united by a strong bond , for by a law of our own it is ...
... Britain forms one of the propositions in Mr. Grattan's cele- brated address to the Crown of the 16th April , 1782. * " The Crowns of both nations , " says Mr. Flood , " are united by a strong bond , for by a law of our own it is ...
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... Britain the nomination of her monarch , " says Mr. Flood , " Ireland gives her in effect the power of treating for her with all the world , and of declaring peace and war for her with all mankind . What follows : that Ireland can have ...
... Britain the nomination of her monarch , " says Mr. Flood , " Ireland gives her in effect the power of treating for her with all the world , and of declaring peace and war for her with all mankind . What follows : that Ireland can have ...
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... Britain as being inseparably united and annexed ' thereunto , and that the King's Majesty , by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled , had , hath , and ...
... Britain as being inseparably united and annexed ' thereunto , and that the King's Majesty , by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled , had , hath , and ...
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Page 35 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Page 82 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned; but the concurrence of the Peers and the Crown to a tax, is only necessary to close with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
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