A Primer of the English Constitution and Government: For the Use of Colleges, Schools, and Private Students |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 29
Page 22
... hand there are good reasons for holding that it is better to have two Chambers or Assemblies than only one . It is better to have a matter considered twice over by bodies of persons selected on different principles rather than to run ...
... hand there are good reasons for holding that it is better to have two Chambers or Assemblies than only one . It is better to have a matter considered twice over by bodies of persons selected on different principles rather than to run ...
Page 25
... hand , if a town increases in importance , or grows into importance for the first time , it is allowed to return more Members or one Member at least ( if it returned none before ) . This , with other changes in the representation , is ...
... hand , if a town increases in importance , or grows into importance for the first time , it is allowed to return more Members or one Member at least ( if it returned none before ) . This , with other changes in the representation , is ...
Page 31
... hands , and the 100 electors in the minority have nothing to say to it , having exhausted all their votes in supporting the candidate who alone in any sense represents them . The same waste of votes and consequent disfranchise- ment is ...
... hands , and the 100 electors in the minority have nothing to say to it , having exhausted all their votes in supporting the candidate who alone in any sense represents them . The same waste of votes and consequent disfranchise- ment is ...
Page 57
... hand of the Speaker , and are called the " Govern- ment . ” The Members of the opposite party sit on the left hand of the Speaker , that is ... hands . Sometimes a motion of " Want of Confidence " in the Government Political Parties . 57.
... hand of the Speaker , and are called the " Govern- ment . ” The Members of the opposite party sit on the left hand of the Speaker , that is ... hands . Sometimes a motion of " Want of Confidence " in the Government Political Parties . 57.
Page 72
... hands in carrying out general ecclesiastical objects prescribed and limited by law . Such are the increase of poor livings , the building and repairing of churches , the foundation of new bishoprics and the like . The Mint and Coinage ...
... hands in carrying out general ecclesiastical objects prescribed and limited by law . Such are the increase of poor livings , the building and repairing of churches , the foundation of new bishoprics and the like . The Mint and Coinage ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according Acts of Parliament aforesaid amount appointed assent Assize Bank Bank of England barons belonging Bill Board body Borough British called Charter Chief Church Church of England civil Colonies Commission Commissioners committed Common Law Constables contract Court of Chancery Court of Judicature Court of Justice crime criminal Crown death debt declared district Division duties elected England English Law Exchequer execution felony foreign Government granted Guardians Habeas Corpus heirs House of Commons House of Lords important imprisonment Ireland issued Judges Judicature Act judicial Jury King kingdom land liberties Lord Chancellor Lords Spiritual Majesties marriage matter ment ministers mode number of persons offence officers parish party passed peace Police present prisoner Privy Council proceedings punishment purpose Quarter Sessions Queen's realm reign respect Revenue Secretary ships Sovereign statutes summoned Superior Courts Supreme Court taxes tion treason trial vote warrant writ
Popular passages
Page 210 - And whereas of late years, partial, corrupt, and unqualified persons have been returned and served on juries in trials, and particularly divers jurors in trials for high treason, which were not freeholders. 10. And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects. 11. And excessive fines have been imposed; and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted.
Page 52 - MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties herein-after mentioned...
Page 210 - And whereas the said late King James the Second having abdicated the Government and the Throne being thereby vacant, His Highness the Prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of Delivering this Kingdom from Popery and arbitrary power...
Page 205 - And whereas no offender of what kind soever is exempted from the proceedings to be used and punishments to be inflicted by the laws and statutes of this your realm, nevertheless of late...
Page 217 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalised or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable to be of the Privy Council, or a member of either house of Parliament ; or to enjoy any office or place of trust, either civil or military ; or to have any grant of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, from the Crown to himself,...
Page 81 - Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
Page 210 - 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 211 - 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 193 - We, or, if we should be out of the realm, our chief justiciary, shall send two justiciaries through every county four times a year, who, with four knights, chosen out of every shire by the people, shall hold the said assizes, in the county, on the day, and at the place appointed. 19. And if any matters cannot be determined on the day appointed for holding the assizes in each county, so many of the knights and freeholders as have been at the assizes aforesaid, shall stay to decide them, as is necessary,...
Page 212 - 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. And I do declare, That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm:...