 | Liah Greenfeld - History - 1992 - 600 pages
...entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures . . . 5. That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England . . . 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - Law - 2003 - 398 pages
...would not have been possible had Great Britain not maintained a standing army in North America. 5. That the respective colonies are entitled to the common...the vicinage, according to the course of that law. 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of... | |
 | Robert E. Litan - Law - 2011 - 564 pages
...interfered with the selection of jurymen in Massachusetts. The fifth resolution of the congress stated, "The respective colonies are entitled to the common...the vicinage according to the course of that law. "67 Concern about jury trials was reiterated by the Second Continental Congress, whose Declaration... | |
 | Russell Kirk - Social Science - 1993 - 136 pages
...came to be regarded as higher law . . .3 gress' Declaration and Resolves (14 October 1774) "Resolved, that the respective colonies are entitled to the common...inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of that vicinage, according to the course of that law."4 The Patriots were asserting their claim to enjoy... | |
 | Barry Alan Shain - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...of English liberty," was the "right in the people to participate in their legislative council . . . and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by your peers of the vicinage."104 These elements, then, were emphasized in early as well as later characterizations... | |
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That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. 
