Constitutional History of EnglandH. Holt, 1921 - 518 páginas |
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... opinion on any political question except that of the cabinet in office , and who never expresses an opinion except through his ministers . The house of com- mons also , as the supreme authority in the state , is the con- stitution ...
... opinion on any political question except that of the cabinet in office , and who never expresses an opinion except through his ministers . The house of com- mons also , as the supreme authority in the state , is the con- stitution ...
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... opinion to bear directly upon the members of the house , so efficient indeed that one may begin to question if the representative character of the member is not in danger of disappearing in the character of a mere delegate . We may have ...
... opinion to bear directly upon the members of the house , so efficient indeed that one may begin to question if the representative character of the member is not in danger of disappearing in the character of a mere delegate . We may have ...
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... opinion was of any consequence . In this sense its voice was the voice of the nation . In capacity and function the witenagemot was like many primitive institutions undifferentiated , that is , it was accus- tomed to perform , without ...
... opinion was of any consequence . In this sense its voice was the voice of the nation . In capacity and function the witenagemot was like many primitive institutions undifferentiated , that is , it was accus- tomed to perform , without ...
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... opinion rather than that of the court , and we cannot be absolutely sure that this was not sometimes the case , but such detailed accounts and descrip- tions of judicial action as we have render it highly improb- able . How the assembly ...
... opinion rather than that of the court , and we cannot be absolutely sure that this was not sometimes the case , but such detailed accounts and descrip- tions of judicial action as we have render it highly improb- able . How the assembly ...
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... opinion of the court as to where justice lay , between the two . Almost always , if the defend- ant had successfully ... opinion of the community about the case , but the process of finding the oath - helpers tests that judgment still ...
... opinion of the court as to where justice lay , between the two . Almost always , if the defend- ant had successfully ... opinion of the community about the case , but the process of finding the oath - helpers tests that judgment still ...
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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...