 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 - Pągina 390editat per - 1833Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pągines
...nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls. Case of Sultan's Hospital, 10 Sij>. 32. Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign. Debate in the Commons, May 17, 1628. Six hours in sleep, in law's grave stud}7 six, Four spend in prayer,... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - 1886 - 870 pągines
...weaken the foundations 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." I wonder this " sovereign " was not in Magna Charta, or in the confirmations of it. If we grant this,... | |
 | 1914 - 812 pągines
...sovereignty. The subsequent declaration of Coke, in opposition to the claimed sovereign power of the king, "Magna Charta is such a Fellow that he will have no Sovereign," and another expression, heard afterwards on both sides of the Atlantic, to the effect that the government... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 512 pągines
...unknown, he said, to Mogna Charta and other statutes of freedom. 'Take we heed what we yield unto ; Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign ' (Parl. Hist. ii. 357). The old man appeared in yet. one morehistorical scene. During the debate on... | |
 | [Anonymus AC09680264] - 1888 - 110 pągines
...all our statutes,' says Sir Edward Coke, ' are absolute and without any saving of sovereign power. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.' "A hundred years before, in 1688, these same English forbearers had taught the final lesson of constitutional... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pągines
...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. If we... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pągines
...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. If we... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pągines
...brought forth. x. GROVEH CLEVELAND — Message. March 1, 1880. OCCUPATIONS-LAW. OCCUPATIONS— LAW. 487 the gate of Paradise : But while one little nap he snatched, a. SIR EDWARD COKE — Debate in the Gmmont. May 17, 1G28. Reason is the life of the law ; nay, the... | |
 | Jesse Macy - 1896 - 570 pągines
...England were sovereign. "The statutes," said Coke, "are absolute without any saving 'sovereign power.' 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,... | |
 | William Penn - 1897 - 274 pągines
...royal claim to sovereign power outside of Parliament, he argued, " Take we heed what we yield unto ; Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." (Parl. Hist. II. 357.) This celebrated second volume of the Institutes was finished in 1628. On May... | |
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