 | Charles Emanuel Martin, William Henry George - United States - 1927 - 794 pages
...legislation" the exercise of legislative power by a council appointed by the crown during pleasure. "It is indispensably necessary to good government,...of the legislature be independent of each other." The Virginia Bill of Rights (1776) contains a declaration against a union of legislative and executive... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1925 - 276 pages
...without the consent of the legislature of that colony in which the army is kept, is against law. (10) It is indispensably necessary to good government,...that the constituent branches of the legislature be indedependent of each other, and that therefore the exercise of legislative power in several colonies... | |
 | George White - Georgia - 2011 - 852 pages
...of the legislature of that colony in which such army is kept, is against law. Eleventhly. — And as it is indispensably necessary to good government,...branches of the legislature be independent of each other — Resolved, That the exercise of legislative power in any colony, by a coun cil appointed during... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - Law - 2003 - 398 pages
...legislature were mutually independent. The Continental Congress claimed this ideal when resolving that "the exercise of legislative power in several colonies,...dangerous, and destructive to the freedom of American legislation."5 Not all rights claimed by the Continental Congress were mentioned in the Declaration... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - Law - 2003 - 398 pages
...is," the Congress declared, "indispensibly necessary to good government, and rendered essential to the English constitution, that the constituent branches...destructive to the freedom of American legislation." These two resolves can be dated at 1774 or later, because before 1774 there would have been no reason... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - History - 2001 - 406 pages
...councillors on the crown, the Congress argued, eroded legislative freedom in the colonies, because "it is indispensably necessary to good government,...branches of the legislature be independent of each other."7 The incident showed clearly that the colonists did not worry about the lack of a social base... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Constitutional history - 2002 - 476 pages
...consent of the legislature of that colony in which such army is kept, is against law. Resolved, NCD 10. It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the Knglish constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other... | |
 | Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...The colonists have a right to peaceable assembly. 5. It is indispensably necessary to good government that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other. The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) Rights was copied by several of the other colonies and then... | |
 | Mary Mostert - Political Science - 2004 - 230 pages
...consent of the legislature of that colony, in which such army is kept, is against law. Resolved, 10. It is indispensably necessary to good government,...destructive to the freedom of American legislation. It also specifically demanded repeal of three acts passed by Parliament in the previous session: (... | |
 | John Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 580 pages
...inestimable privilege of being tried by your peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. That it is indispensably necessary to good government,...of the legislature be independent of each other."* These among others you then claimed, demanded, and insisted on, as your indubitable rights and liberties.... | |
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It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power in several colonies,... 
