The Constitution of England: In which it is Compared Both with the Republican Form of Government, and the Other Monarchies in Europeproprietors of the English Classics, 1826 - 304 Seiten |
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... share of natural abilities , I was enabled to perform the task I had undertaken with tolerable suc- cess . I was twenty - seven years old when I came to this country : after having been in it only a year , I began to write my work ...
... share of natural abilities , I was enabled to perform the task I had undertaken with tolerable suc- cess . I was twenty - seven years old when I came to this country : after having been in it only a year , I began to write my work ...
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... share with book- sellers in the profits arising from the sale of it . These profits I indeed thought to be but scanty and slow : but then I considered this was no more than the common complaint made by every trader in regard to his gain ...
... share with book- sellers in the profits arising from the sale of it . These profits I indeed thought to be but scanty and slow : but then I considered this was no more than the common complaint made by every trader in regard to his gain ...
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... , written in French , on the subject of the American disputes , was , I have been told , lately attributed to me , in which I had no share . freedom allowed to all individuals to take an active part 16 ADVERTISEMENT .
... , written in French , on the subject of the American disputes , was , I have been told , lately attributed to me , in which I had no share . freedom allowed to all individuals to take an active part 16 ADVERTISEMENT .
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... share ; they were the mere effect of private ambition or caprice . The people did not engage in them as associates in the support of a cause common to all ; they were drag . ged , blindfold , and like slaves , to the standard of their ...
... share ; they were the mere effect of private ambition or caprice . The people did not engage in them as associates in the support of a cause common to all ; they were drag . ged , blindfold , and like slaves , to the standard of their ...
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... share in that security it was meant to establish . It was hence instituted by the Great Charter , that the same services which were remitted in favour of the barons , should be in like manner remitted in favour of their vassals . This ...
... share in that security it was meant to establish . It was hence instituted by the Great Charter , that the same services which were remitted in favour of the barons , should be in like manner remitted in favour of their vassals . This ...
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Seite 64 - 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.
Seite 61 - 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? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.
Seite 45 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Seite 176 - 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 himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Seite 112 - These pitiful evasions gave rise to the statute 16 Car. I. c. 10. § 8. whereby it is enacted, that if any person be committed by the king himself in person, or by his privy council, or by any of the members thereof, he shall have granted unto him, without any delay upon any pretence whatsoever, a writ of habeas corpus...
Seite 113 - Guernsey. 9. That no inhabitant of England (except persons contracting, or convicts praying, to be transported; or having committed some capital offence in the place to which they are sent) shall be sent prisoner to Scotland, Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey, or any places beyond the seas, within or without the king's dominions; on pain that the party committing, his advisers, aiders, and assistants, shall forfeit to the party aggrieved a sum not less than 500Z.
Seite 126 - But here we must observe a difference between the legislative and the executive powers. The latter may be confined, and even is the more easily so, when undivided: the legislative, on the contrary, in order to its being restrained, should absolutely be divided. For, whatever laws it may make to restrain itself, they never can be, relatively to it...
Seite 113 - That every person committed for treason or felony shall, if he requires it the first week of the next term, or the first day of the next session of oyer and terminer...
Seite 210 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Seite 113 - Act, and signed by the person awarding them. 3. That the writ shall be returned, and the prisoner brought up within a limited time according to the distance, not exceeding in any case twenty days. 4. That officers and keepers neglecting to make due returns, or not delivering to the prisoner or his agent within six hours after demand a copy of the warrant of commitment, or shifting the custody of...