Constitutional History of EnglandH. Holt, 1924 - 518 páginas |
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... PERIOD • CENTRALIZATION and Law · • PAGE ix I 5 50 · 77 98 · THE GREAT CHARTER GROWTH OF THE CONSTITUTION AND OF THE IV V 121 VI COMMON LAW . · 144 • VII THE ORIGIN OF PARLIAMENT . · • . 169 ▻ VIII THE GROWTH OF PARLIAMENT IX · 192 ...
... PERIOD • CENTRALIZATION and Law · • PAGE ix I 5 50 · 77 98 · THE GREAT CHARTER GROWTH OF THE CONSTITUTION AND OF THE IV V 121 VI COMMON LAW . · 144 • VII THE ORIGIN OF PARLIAMENT . · • . 169 ▻ VIII THE GROWTH OF PARLIAMENT IX · 192 ...
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... period they should be supplemented by Gross and for the modern by the bibliographies in the general histories named . A. and S. A. H. R. Cheyney , Readings . E. H. R. Gardiner , Documents . G. and H. Penn . ABBREVIATIONS Adams and ...
... period they should be supplemented by Gross and for the modern by the bibliographies in the general histories named . A. and S. A. H. R. Cheyney , Readings . E. H. R. Gardiner , Documents . G. and H. Penn . ABBREVIATIONS Adams and ...
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... 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 many essential matters we have to confess our ignorance . A scholar reaches ...
... 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 many essential matters we have to confess our ignorance . A scholar reaches ...
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... period of Saxon history a considerable development of urban interests , the borough never attained the relative impor- tance in the national life that it acquired in the first Anglo- Norman age , an importance which shows itself in the ...
... period of Saxon history a considerable development of urban interests , the borough never attained the relative impor- tance in the national life that it acquired in the first Anglo- Norman age , an importance which shows itself in the ...
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... period . Capture in war , even of one Saxon tribe against another , and economic misfortune more or less constantly reinforced the class . On the other hand it is clear that the general tendency of things worked here , somewhat more ...
... period . Capture in war , even of one Saxon tribe against another , and economic misfortune more or less constantly reinforced the class . On the other hand it is clear that the general tendency of things worked here , somewhat more ...
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Página 313 - 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 449 - 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 315 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Página 313 - 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 449 - 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 191 - 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 348 - That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws; and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Página 348 - And whereas it hath been found by experience, that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom, to be governed by a Popish prince...
Página 229 - The fact of guilt or innocence on a criminal charge was determined in a public court, and in the county where the offence was alleged to have occurred, by a jury of twelve men, from whose unanimous verdict no appeal could be made.
Página 322 - Whether this portion of the world were rent, By the rude ocean, from the continent; Or thus created; it was sure designed To be the sacred refuge of mankind.