The Constitution of England: Or, An Account of the English Government: in which it is Compared Both with the Republican Form of Government and the Other Monarchies in EuropeH. G. Bohn, 1853 - 376 pàgines |
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Pàgina xii
... opinion , that , had the like argu- ments in favour of the existing government of this country , against republican principles , been shown to Charles the First , or his ministers , at a certain period of his reign , they would have ...
... opinion , that , had the like argu- ments in favour of the existing government of this country , against republican principles , been shown to Charles the First , or his ministers , at a certain period of his reign , they would have ...
Pàgina 7
... opinion , -equality before the law , —and the enjoyment of political and religious liberty . De Lolme's " Essay on the Constitution of England " will therefore always form a standard work , so long as we enjoy the blessings of freedom ...
... opinion , -equality before the law , —and the enjoyment of political and religious liberty . De Lolme's " Essay on the Constitution of England " will therefore always form a standard work , so long as we enjoy the blessings of freedom ...
Pàgina 14
... opinion of some persons , giving an additional sanction and dignity to the English government , contributes to increase their love and respect for it . It will be sufficient for my purpose , if the reader shall be pleased to grant that ...
... opinion of some persons , giving an additional sanction and dignity to the English government , contributes to increase their love and respect for it . It will be sufficient for my purpose , if the reader shall be pleased to grant that ...
Pàgina 34
... opinion , " says Philippe de Comines , in times not much posterior to those of Edward the First , and with the sim- plicity of the language of his times , " among all the sovereignties I know in the world , that in which the public good ...
... opinion , " says Philippe de Comines , in times not much posterior to those of Edward the First , and with the sim- plicity of the language of his times , " among all the sovereignties I know in the world , that in which the public good ...
Pàgina 73
... opinion . || * Parliament has taken care that it shall meet every year , by only voting the Mutiny Bill and the Supplies for one year.—Ed. Stat . 30 Geo . II . c . 25. Repealed . The convocation or assembly of the clergy , of which the ...
... opinion . || * Parliament has taken care that it shall meet every year , by only voting the Mutiny Bill and the Supplies for one year.—Ed. Stat . 30 Geo . II . c . 25. Repealed . The convocation or assembly of the clergy , of which the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 342 - 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.
Pàgina 343 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.
Pàgina 189 - Sense taken for a malicious Defamation, expressed either in Printing or Writing, and tending either to blacken the Memory of one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public Hatred, Contempt or Ridicule.
Pàgina 338 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Pàgina 77 - 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.
Pàgina 51 - An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown.
Pàgina 76 - 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.
Pàgina 344 - ... will entirely lose its force when it is shown by a reasonable exertion of the laws that the press cannot be abused to any bad purpose without incurring a suitable punishment, whereas it never can be used to any good one when under the control of an Inspector. So true will it be found that to censure the licentiousness is to maintain the liberty of the press."—Blackstone, B.
Pàgina 369 - DRESS AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time. With an Historical Inquiry into every branch of Costume, Ancient and Modern.