Constitutional History of EnglandH. Holt, 1921 - 518 páginas |
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... early as we can detect signs of the uniting of the two peoples , we find the beginnings of that new growth under a government which was an almost ideally complete absolutism , and from that day to this without a break that growth has ...
... early as we can detect signs of the uniting of the two peoples , we find the beginnings of that new growth under a government which was an almost ideally complete absolutism , and from that day to this without a break that growth has ...
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... early English law has said : " The written dooms of our kings have been searched over and over again by men skilled in detecting the least shred of Roman law under the most barbaric disguise , and they have found noth- ing worthy of ...
... early English law has said : " The written dooms of our kings have been searched over and over again by men skilled in detecting the least shred of Roman law under the most barbaric disguise , and they have found noth- ing worthy of ...
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... early Saxon institutions and to the history of their development during the period of Saxon rule in England , but the material from which we must obtain our knowledge is so scanty and so difficult to interpret with certainty that about ...
... early Saxon institutions and to the history of their development during the period of Saxon rule in England , but the material from which we must obtain our knowledge is so scanty and so difficult to interpret with certainty that about ...
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... early civilization must be repeated : not to attribute to the minds of that time ideas which are the results of historical growth and experience since their day . The temptation is almost irresistible to assume that they understood by ...
... early civilization must be repeated : not to attribute to the minds of that time ideas which are the results of historical growth and experience since their day . The temptation is almost irresistible to assume that they understood by ...
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... early political organization in times of recorded history , considered as the center of the machinery of government and as the directing head responsible for the going on of all proc- esses , inevitably grew in power as the state grew ...
... early political organization in times of recorded history , considered as the center of the machinery of government and as the directing head responsible for the going on of all proc- esses , inevitably grew in power as the state grew ...
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action Anglo-Saxon assembly barons beginning boroughs cabinet cabinet government called carried character Charles Charter chief church clearly common law Conquest consent council court crown curia regis declared Documents Edward election England English constitution ernment fact feudal function grant Henry Henry II house of commons house of lords impeachment important influence institutions interest judicial jurisdiction jury justice king king's kingdom knights land later legislation machinery Magna Carta manor manorial ment method ministry modern monarchy Norman Norman Conquest opinion opposition organization parlia parliament parliamentary party period petition Petition of Right Pitt political practice prerogative principle Provisions of Oxford question reform bill reign responsibility result revolution royal Saxon scutage secure seems sheriff shire sovereign statute Stubbs taxation tenants things thirteenth century tion tory Tudor vote whig witenagemot writ
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Página 321 - The privilege of election, which belongs to the people, therefore must not be exercised according to their humors, but according to the blessed will and law of God. " III. They who have the power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the power and place unto which they call them.
Página 457 - She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign Ministers before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time ; and to have the drafts for her approval sent to her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they must be sent off.
Página 284 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 321 - Parliament assembled do declare, that the People are, under God, the original of all just power; and do also declare, that the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, being chosen by and representing the People, have the supreme power in this nation...
Página 294 - Majesty, that no Man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any Gift, Loan, Benevolence, Tax or such like Charge, without Common Consent by Act of Parliament...
Página 323 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Página 457 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing...
Página 408 - That it is now necessary to declare, that to report any opinion, or pretended opinion of his Majesty upon any bill or other proceeding depending in either House of Parliament, with a view to influence the votes of the members, is a high crime and misdemeanour, derogatory to the honour of the Crown, a breach of the fundamental privileges of Parliament, and subversive of the Constitution of this country.
Página 199 - Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever ; but the matters which are to be established for the estate of our lord the King and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments, by our lord the King, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm ; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Página 311 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government...