...celebrated Under the appellation of the BIM. of RIGHTS. It is as follows : WHEREAS the late king JAMES II. by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges,...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom, by assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with, and suspending of laws, and the execution of...

...James the Se" cond, by the Assistance of divers evil " Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers em" ployed by him, did endeavour to subvert ** and extirpate the Protestant Religion, " and the Law* and Liberties of this " Kingdom. " I. By assuming and exercising a " Power cf dispensing uiit/i...

...was determined that he had abdicated the government. The act states. Whereas the late King, Jumci II. by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges,...by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the pro» testant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom, by assuming and exercising a power...

...declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject : in that act notice is taken, that the late king James did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion, and the laws and liberties of the kingdom ; and the particular instances of male-administration are set forth : then it declares,...

...national liberty. " Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil councillors, judges, and ministers, employed by him, did endeavour...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom," and more to the same effect. From a comparison, then, of this preamble with the history of the reign...

...this act. It is for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject; U declares that king James, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges,...Protestant religion, and' the laws and liberties of the kingdom ; it then states the various instances m which he did so, all of which it declares are...

...And shall then kiss the hook." And by the 1 W. sess. 2. c. 2. Whereas the late king James the second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges,...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom : 1. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution...

...which I laid before the Court.'] Copy of the Bill of Rights. Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges,...Religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom, by assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, without consent of Parliament;...

...which I laid before the Court.] Copy of the Bill of Rights. Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges,...Religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom, by assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, without consent of Parliament;...

...judges, and ministers employed by him" — (such was the language of the bill of Rights) — " did he endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom." The House would therefore se,e, that, though the king was obliged to be in communion with the church...