 | Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 706 pages
...duties of the king of England. * « A king of England cannot at his pleafure make any kin£i ' s power ' alterations in the laws of the land; for the nature of his government is not only regal t but political. Had it been merely regal, he would have a power to make what innovations and alterations... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 658 pages
...tnre • Iimi •-' & • ' tations of our England cannot at his pleafure make any kin s'« power, alterations in the laws of the land; for the nature of his government is not only regal t but political. Had it been merely regal, he would have a power to make what innovations and alterations... | |
 | Law - 1807 - 324 pages
...Edward the Fourth, that " A king of " England cannot at his pleasure make any alteration in "' the Jaws of the land, for the nature of his government " is not only regal but political; and that the king whose " government is political cannot make, any alteration or " change in the laws... | |
 | Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1814 - 356 pages
...their own authority, without the confent of parliament. " A king of England cannot, "at his pleafure, make any alterations in the " laws of the land; for the nature of his go" vernraent is not only regal but political 8s ." I am not fo certain that it was underftood to be... | |
 | George Hardinge - 1818 - 470 pages
...independence vested in a subject of his Dominion. Horace, addressing himself to Augustus, affects * The nature of his government is not only regal, but political. He cannot, therefore, make any alteration in the laws of the land.—Fortescue, chap. ix. De Laud. Leg.... | |
 | George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 570 pages
...every where in preference to all other human laws. Let not this difficulty, Sir, give you any concern. A king of England cannot, at his pleasure, make any...of his government is not only regal but political. Had it been merely regal, he would have a power to make what innovations and alterations he phased... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1822 - 740 pages
...by Fortescue, as some succeeding lawyers have inculcated the doctrines of arbitrary prerogative. " A king of England cannot at his pleasure make any...of his government is not only regal, but political. Had it been merely regal, he would have a power to make what innovations and alterations he pleased... | |
 | Sir John Fortescue, Andrew Amos - Constitutional law - 1825 - 304 pages
...every where, in preference to all other human laws: let not this difficulty, Sir! give you any concern. A King of England cannot, at his pleasure, make any...alterations in the laws of the land, for the nature of his goverment is not only regal, but political. Had it been merely regal, he would have a power to make... | |
 | English constitution - Constitutional history - 1828 - 434 pages
...which is political," Fortescue says, " A king of England cannot, at his pleasure, make any alteration in the laws of the land; for the nature of his government is not only regal, but political. Had it been merely regal, he would have had a power to make what innovations and alterations he pleased... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 528 pages
...Fortescue writing to the son of Henry VI., "cannot at his pleasure make any alterations in the law of the land, for the nature of his government is not only regal but political." Yet the king was not merely a hereditary executive magistrate, he had extensive prerogatives annexed... | |
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A king of England cannot, at his pleasure, make any alterations in the laws of the land, for the nature of his government is not only regal but political. 
