Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the First, Volume 3William Stubbs |
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... power lies deep in the very nature of the people . It is not then the collection of a multitude of facts and views , but the piecing of the links of a perfect chain . And in this comparatively complete and intel- ligible connexion of ...
... power lies deep in the very nature of the people . It is not then the collection of a multitude of facts and views , but the piecing of the links of a perfect chain . And in this comparatively complete and intel- ligible connexion of ...
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... power of Rome and the necessities of conquest have , in the sixth century , in France and Spain , forced the process into a maturity which it has not reached in England or in un - Romanised Germany four centuries later . We must add to ...
... power of Rome and the necessities of conquest have , in the sixth century , in France and Spain , forced the process into a maturity which it has not reached in England or in un - Romanised Germany four centuries later . We must add to ...
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... power of the crown became greater and the number of jurisdictions multiplied . under the leaven of feudalism . The ... powers of legislation and taxation are never lost , nor does the king execute judgment without a court which is in ...
... power of the crown became greater and the number of jurisdictions multiplied . under the leaven of feudalism . The ... powers of legislation and taxation are never lost , nor does the king execute judgment without a court which is in ...
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... power is limited by a council of free advisers ; and he is bound by oaths to his people to govern well , to maintain religion , peace , and justice , they being bound to him in turn by a general oath of fidelity . It would be rash to ...
... power is limited by a council of free advisers ; and he is bound by oaths to his people to govern well , to maintain religion , peace , and justice , they being bound to him in turn by a general oath of fidelity . It would be rash to ...
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... power of the king . Early in the eleventh century he seems to have entered on the right of disposing of the public land without reference to the witan , and of calling up to his own court by writ suits which had not yet exhausted the powers ...
... power of the king . Early in the eleventh century he seems to have entered on the right of disposing of the public land without reference to the witan , and of calling up to his own court by writ suits which had not yet exhausted the powers ...
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Page 522 - I AB do swear, That I do from my heart, abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 520 - By raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace, without consent of parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law. 6. By causing several good subjects, being protestants, to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed, contrary to law.
Page 512 - ... they were detained by your majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your privy council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being charged with anything to which they might make answer according to the law.
Page 520 - And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures before any conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied. All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes and freedom of this realm.
Page 512 - England, it is declared and enacted, That no freeman may be taken or Imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 522 - And thereupon their Majesties were pleased, That the said lords spiritual and temporal and commons, being the two houses of parliament, should continue to sit, and with their Majesties' royal concurrence make effectual provision for the settlement of the religion, laws and liberties of this kingdom, so that the same for the future might not be in danger again of being subverted; to which the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, did agree and proceed to act accordingly.
Page 519 - Whereas the late king James the Second by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom.
Page 523 - That all and every person and persons that is, are, or shall be reconciled to, or shall hold communion with, the See or Church of Rome, or shall profess the Popish religion, or shall marry a Papist, shall be excluded, and be...
Page 512 - ... and condemnation of such offenders, and them to cause to be executed and put to death according to the law martial...
Page 524 - ... power, authority or jurisdiction within the same; and in all and every such case or cases the people of these realms shall be and are hereby absolved of their allegiance; and the said crown and government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person or persons being Protestants as should have inherited and enjoyed the same in case the said person or persons so reconciled, holding communion or professing or marrying as aforesaid were naturally dead.