...Act of Settlement. In this Bill it was expressly declared " That the pretended power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal;" every mode of levying money upon the subject by mere virtue of the royal prerogative was pointedly...

...Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid, Doe in the first place (as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done) for the Vindicating and Asserting their auntient Rights and Liberties, Declare.*) That the pretended Power of Suspending of Laws or the Execution...

...cases have usually done), for vindicating and asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, declare: That the pretended Power of suspending of Laws, or...regal authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegnl: That the pretended power of dispensing with Laws, or the Execution of Laws, by regal authority,...

...realm, and to have abdicated the government, proceeds to enact, among other things, as follows : — 1. That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, transferred by delivery), of an office, or the like. A Bill of Sale is, by the registry acts, rendered...

...and Commons " vindicated and asserted their " ancient rights and liberties," is as follows :— • " That the pretended power of suspending of laws, " or the execution of laws, by regal authority, with" out consent of Parliament, is illegal." It is perfectly plain, therefore, that neither the Ministers...

...most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done), for...the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights aud liberties, declare:— 1. That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws,...

...dispute, the supremacy of the Crown and British Dominion over America: " Do in the first place, as their ancestors in like case have usually done, for...asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare :"1[ 1. That the Americans being descended from the same ancestors with the people of England, and owing...

...They then proceed to declare : 1. "That the pretended power of suspending or dispensing with laws, and the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal." This put an end to the practice of interposing the regal authority to prevent the carrying out of a...

...Geo. 3, c. 100. « In the Bill of Rights (1 W. & M. st. 2, c. 2), the rights declared are as follows. 1. That the pretended power of suspending of laws,...authority without consent of parliament, is illegal. "1. That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority,...

...Bill of Rights, " claim, demand, and insist upon, as their undoubted right and liberty," is, — " That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or...authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal." (See the Declarations of James II. of 4 April, 1687, and 27 April, 1688 ; Order in Council of 4 May,...