...pardon. BILL OF RIGHTS (1689) — Declares that the pretended power of suspending or of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal. That raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent...

...The lords and commons in this instrument declare: That the pretended power of suspending laws, and the execution of laws, by regal authority without consent of parliament, is illegal ; That the pretended power of dispensing with laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and...

...most serious consideration the beat means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do, hi the first place (an their ancestors in like case have usually done), for the vindicating and averting their ancient rights and liberties, declare : 1. That the pretended power of suspending of...

...determined by the Bill of Rights (1 Will. & Mar., sess. 2, c. 2), which laid down as follows : — " That the pretended power of suspending of laws or the execution of laws by regall authority without consent of Parlyament, is illegall. " That the pretended power of dispensing...

...occasion, " the best means for attaining the ends " before them, " as their ancestors in like cases have usually done for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties."1 The Convention assembled under conditions of signal excitement and personal danger. Sitting,...

...coutains the following specific declarations: — 'That the pretended ¡>ower of suspending laws and the execution of laws, by regal authority without consent of Parliament, is illegal; That the commission for creating the late courts of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes, and all...

...first Article of that great Palladinm of our liberties, the Bill of Rights ; by which it is declared, ' That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or...authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal.' Lastly, if we ground our proceedings upon the opinion of those who have contended in this House, that...

...asserted in the Act of the ist of William and Mary, namely, ' ist, That the pretended power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal.' ' andly, That the pretended power of dispensing with the laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority,...

...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...declare: 1. That the pretended power of suspending of law?, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal. 2. That...

...you are the guardians of the Bill of Rights. Gentlemen, it is this, " That the pretended power of the suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal...authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal." " That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by the regal authority,...