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... public welfare , and not merely to gratify her personal inclinations . In fact , it is an express part of the common law of England that the Sovereign of these realms must govern according to law . In the reign of William.
... public welfare , and not merely to gratify her personal inclinations . In fact , it is an express part of the common law of England that the Sovereign of these realms must govern according to law . In the reign of William.
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... England are the birthright of the English people , and that all kings and queens of this realm , together with their officers and ministers , are to administer the government of the same according to the said laws . And this statute has ...
... England are the birthright of the English people , and that all kings and queens of this realm , together with their officers and ministers , are to administer the government of the same according to the said laws . And this statute has ...
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... England , and the dom- inions thereto belonging , according to the statutes in Parliament agreed on , and the laws and customs of the same ? ' The Queen : ' I solemnly promise so to do . ' Archbishop : Will you to the utmost of your ...
... England , and the dom- inions thereto belonging , according to the statutes in Parliament agreed on , and the laws and customs of the same ? ' The Queen : ' I solemnly promise so to do . ' Archbishop : Will you to the utmost of your ...
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... England this authority has immemo- rially been exercised by the Sovereign , or his or her substitutes , the judges . Our monarchs have , however , delegated for many ages their judicial power to the judges , who , in their several ...
... England this authority has immemo- rially been exercised by the Sovereign , or his or her substitutes , the judges . Our monarchs have , however , delegated for many ages their judicial power to the judges , who , in their several ...
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... England . She convenes and dissolves all ecclesiastical synods or convocations , and nominates to vacant bishoprics and certain other ecclesiastical preferments . All appellate authority which , previous to the Reforma- tion ,
... England . She convenes and dissolves all ecclesiastical synods or convocations , and nominates to vacant bishoprics and certain other ecclesiastical preferments . All appellate authority which , previous to the Reforma- tion ,
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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...