The Crown and Its Advisers: Or, Queen, Ministers, Lords, & Commons |
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... conduct with that of many of the other Sovereigns who have preceded her , my task would be perhaps a more interesting one . But I come among you to - night , not as an artist who wishes to portray a pleasing picture of royalty , but as ...
... conduct with that of many of the other Sovereigns who have preceded her , my task would be perhaps a more interesting one . But I come among you to - night , not as an artist who wishes to portray a pleasing picture of royalty , but as ...
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... conduct of public affairs is not to be imputed to her , nor is she answerable for it personally to her people . The maxim that the Queen " can do no wrong , " though it sounds like a moral paradox , HER POLITICAL INFALLIBILITY , simply ...
... conduct of public affairs is not to be imputed to her , nor is she answerable for it personally to her people . The maxim that the Queen " can do no wrong , " though it sounds like a moral paradox , HER POLITICAL INFALLIBILITY , simply ...
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... conduct . The personal actions of her Majesty , not being acts of Government , are not under the cognisance of the law . But here you must remember that though the Queen is not personally responsible to any human tribunal for the ...
... conduct . The personal actions of her Majesty , not being acts of Government , are not under the cognisance of the law . But here you must remember that though the Queen is not personally responsible to any human tribunal for the ...
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... conducted by a thou- sand channels to every individual . You have often seen in the daily papers , among the law intelligence , the Queen versus , and then the name of the person prosecuted . Perhaps this has puzzled you , and you ...
... conducted by a thou- sand channels to every individual . You have often seen in the daily papers , among the law intelligence , the Queen versus , and then the name of the person prosecuted . Perhaps this has puzzled you , and you ...
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... conduct of public affairs . This , as you well know , occasioned frequent contests be- tween the Crown and Parliament , which at one time resulted in the horrors of civil war . But the B 3 development of the Constitution , effected by ...
... conduct of public affairs . This , as you well know , occasioned frequent contests be- tween the Crown and Parliament , which at one time resulted in the horrors of civil war . But the B 3 development of the Constitution , effected by ...
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Page 83 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Page 83 - ... raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...
Page 11 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 217 - 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.
Page 220 - 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.
Page 222 - ... of despotism, or the licentiousness of unbridled freedom — reconciling power with liberty : not adopting hasty or ill-advised experiments, or pursuing any airy and unsubstantial theories ; but not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the service of his country any generous and liberal principles, whose excess, indeed, may be dangerous, but whose foundation is in truth.
Page 83 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid...
Page 11 - 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.
Page 83 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, to be taxed no more.
Page 77 - He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics ; and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses in the kingdom. And all this over and above the vast and extensive jurisdiction which he exercises in his judicial capacity in the court of chancery...