...no right to the crown ; and- was departing from the great whig principle, that a king who endeavours to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between the king and people, and violating the fundamental laws, is deemed to have forfeited the crown ; which...

...no right to the crown ; and was departing from the great whig principle, that a king who endeavours to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between the king and people, and violating the fundamental laws, is deemed to have forfeited the crown ; which...

...abdication of king James, was, if.it had any fault, rather too guarded, and too circumstantial.* But • " That king James the Second, having endeavoured to...Jesuits and -other wicked persons, having violated 'he fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself all this guard, and all this accumulation of circumstances,...

...asra, expressly recognized by the law itself. The lords and commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that " king James the Second, having endeavoured to...the original contract between king and people, and having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself, had abdicated the government ; and that...

...regency ; at length the Commons passed by a great majority, the vote of abdications, *' That King James having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...Kingdom, by breaking the original contract between are ready to return (when safely we can) and to redress all the disorders of our kingdoms, in a free...

...Rights of the People, after reciting the votes of the convention of the 28th of January, 1G89, viz. " That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of this kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits,...

...emergency. The Commons had no difficulty in coming to the resolution, that " King James, having broken the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of wicked persons, violated the laws, and withdrawn himself from the kingdom, hath abdicated the government,...

...Rights of the People, after reciting the votes of the convention of the i'Sth of January, 168Q, vis. " That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of this kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits,...

...only one idea thus variously represented. "Resolved, That king James the second having endeavareil to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking...persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and ¡мг-ing vithdrhvn himtrlf out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne...

...two resolutions, not second in importance to any ever voted. The first was, — "That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of...the original contract between King and people, and having by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn...