| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), William Stanhope Taylor, John Henry Pringle - 1839 - 546 pages
...thereof, is directly contrary to the fundamental laws and freedom of this realm, and in particular to the act, 'declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown,' at the ever memorable period of the revolution : when free election of Members of Parliament was expressly... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - 546 pages
...hereditary right to the crown is contested. ' It appears by the several instances mentioned in the act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown, that at the time of the revolution there was a total subversion of the constitution of government both... | |
| William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1839 - 570 pages
...thereof, is directly contrary to the fundamental laws and freedom of this realm, and in particular to the act, 'declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown,' at the ever memorable period of the revolution : when free election of Members of Parliament was expressly... | |
| Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 pages
...of Charles I. 6 Declaration by Parliament, 13 Feb. 1689, to the Prince and Princess of Orange, 'on the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown', the basis of the Bill of Rights passed by Parliament in Oct. 1689. 7 The 1789 voting system (enfranchising... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1987 - 568 pages
...and Mary accepted the throne, was 'confirmed' by being turned into the Bill of Rights, 'An Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown'. 4 Proverbs 26: 1 1: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. s In a 'royal... | |
| Bernard Schwartz - 1992 - 322 pages
...eighteenth-century Americans the Bill of Rights of 1689 was "that second Magna Carta." 64 Its technical title was "An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown." To understand the popular title by which it has always been known and by which the standard, as well... | |
| Robert A. Licht - 1993 - 244 pages
...it. The English Bill of Rights (1688 old calendar, 1689 current calendar) was entitled "An Act for Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown." The Whigs, influenced by John Locke, changed the terms of the debate from liberties to rights. 1 Here... | |
| Margaret Lucille Kekewich - 1994 - 276 pages
...a Provision for the Descent of the Crown of England made by another Act of Parliament in England in the First year of the Reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, intituled, An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and Settling the Succession of... | |
| Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History - 1996 - 540 pages
...General”: Martial Law in Ireland, 1535—1924,' Irish Jurist, 25—7 (1¿o-2), i¿o-8o. 10 ‘An Act for Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and Settling the Succession of the Crown' (UK) 1 Will. and Mary!! (i688), c.2, art.i(i). ii ‘An Act for Punishing Officers and Soldiers Who... | |
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