 I know that prerogative is a part of the law ; but " sovereign power" is no parliamentary word. In my opinion, it weakens Magna Charta and all the statutes, for they are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power. And should we now add it, we shall...  The Eclectic Review - Pàgina 390editat per - 1833Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1875 - 722 pàgines
...tersely said by Sir Edward Coke, during the debate in the House of Commons on the petition of right, " Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." The very essence of the agth chapter of the charter is, among other immunities from oppression, incorporated... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1875 - 610 pàgines
...the right of the king to imprison a subject, previous to the passage of the Petition of Right, that " Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign" (Rushworth, vol. i. pp. 562579), contain a great truth and express what has been stated. The law comes... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1877 - 388 pàgines
...conduct of those two men. Coke said in the course of his speech, " Take we heed what we yield unto. Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no 'sovereign.' I wonder this ' sovereign ' was not in Magna Charta, or in the confirmations of it. If we grant this,... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 pàgines
...word. In my opinion it weakens Magna Charta and all our statutes, for they are absolute without any saving of sovereign power : and shall we now add it...foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what wo yield unto. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." SIR... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 pàgines
...word. In my opinion it weakens Magna Charta and all our statutes, for they are absolute without any saving of sovereign power : and shall we now add it...foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed wli.it we yield unto. Magna Charts is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." SIR... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1881 - 240 pàgines
...word. In my opinion it weakens Magna Charta and all our Statutes; for they are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power. And, shall we now add it,...foundation of Law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what we yield unto. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign " (May... | |
 | John Macleod (M.A.) - 1882 - 168 pàgines
...of the king.1 The Commons replied that they had no 'sovereign power' to give, and Coke added that ' Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no " sovereign." ' At last the Lords gave way, and accepted the bill as a whole. The king, however, continued to evade... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pàgines
...upon his pillow if he had not thought that the king had a right to carry it off from under his head." Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign. Objecting to the words, " sovereign power," which the lords, in an amendment to the Petition of Right,... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1883 - 146 pàgines
...and all the statutes, for they are absolute without any saving of " Sovereign Power ; " and should we now add it, we shall weaken the foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall.' 1 Lord Chief Justice Coke and Baron Stockmar are, it seems, in direct opposition to each other on this... | |
 | 1883 - 540 pàgines
...which he had disregarded, with amplifications and numerous provisions for the liberties of the people. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign. — RUSHWORTH. It is the keystone of English liberty. All that has since been obtained is little more... | |
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