 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 1094 pages
...made of the resolution of the legislature, in 1688, that King James II. had, by acts subversive of the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, virtually renounced the authority which he claimed by that very constitution, and that, therefore,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 418 pages
...debate, the committee came to the following memorable resolution : — " That King James -the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 422 pages
...debate, the committee came to the following memorable resolution : — " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 426 pages
...premises to which your Lordships have agreed ; for your Lordships have agreed that King James II. hath endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...the original contract between king and people, and hath violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the kingdom. Now the word ' deserted'... | |
 | Arthur Hill-Trevor Dungannon (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1835 - 466 pages
...necessarily inferred from the premises, which their Lordships had agreed to, viz. that King James II. had endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...the original contract between king and people, and had violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the kingdom. That the word 'deserted'... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...popular representative and of the magnates of the * " That King James the Second, having ondeavoured you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those by ihe advice ofjesuils. and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having... | |
 | Arthur Hill-Trevor Dungannon (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1835 - 468 pages
...perhaps the most remarkable in all the annals of England : — "Resolved, — That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract betwixt king and people ; and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...supposition of this vacancy, both houses (y) came to this resolution: " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract (21) between king and people; and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Great Britain - 1838 - 404 pages
...head of the princess of Orange, asdesiied by Danby. (Parl. Hist. v. 36.) The final vote was, — 4* That king James II., having endeavoured to subvert...the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...the supposition of this vacancy, both houses came to this resolution : " that king James the second having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...the original contract between king and people ; and, by'ihe advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws ; and having... | |
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second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn... 
