 | Jane Austen - 2001 - 502 páginas
...inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any...other more general or prior right.' By this means i The Magna Carta (1215) and the Bill of Rights (1689) both set limits to the powers of the crown.... | |
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 páginas
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any...whatever to any other more general or prior right." These facets of the revolutionary narrative in Burke's historical thought had the further effect of... | |
 | Peter Viereck - 200 páginas
...prescriptive constitution [whose] . . . sole authority is that it has existed time out of mind . . . without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right." The latest research of the philosopher Leo Strauss confirms that Burke never resolved that contradiction.... | |
 | Peter Viereck - 216 páginas
...is a prescriptive constitution . . . [whose] sole authority is that it has existed time out of mind without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. Burke shocked his century by his brutal frankness in defending "illusions" and "prejudices" as socially... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 páginas
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown,... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 páginas
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown,... | |
 | Allan Hepburn - 2007 - 313 páginas
...derived to use from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity - as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...whatever to any other more general or prior right' (33). Thus, the crown, the peerage, the House of Commons, the franchise, and protected rights of Englishmen... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 páginas
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 páginas
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown,... | |
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You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity... 
