 | Josef Redlich - 1903 - 352 pages
...position claimed by the Commons in this respect was clearly fixed. In 1671 they passed a solemn resolution "that in all aids given to the King by the Commons...rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords." 3 And a second resolution, passed on the 3rd of July 1678, affirmed "that all aids and supplies, and... | |
 | Edward Porritt - 1903 - 656 pages
...amendment was read in the House of Commons it was resolved, nemine contra, " that in all aids to be given to the King by the Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords3." It would seem that the Lords had made the amendment to provoke another contest on the claim... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1906 - 1068 pages
...p™ 5 86. S ° upon the subjects of the Crown, advanced this claim still further by resolving, 1671, "That in all aids given to the king by the Commons,...rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords; " and, by a second resolution, 3rd July, 1678, " That all aids and supplies, and aids to his Majesty... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1907 - 280 pages
...white sugar from one penny to five-eights of a penny on the pound, the Commons passed a resolution that : — " In all aids given to the King by the...rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords." At a conference with the Lords they declared that the right they claimed " was a fundamental right,... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1908 - 600 pages
...authority can be stated with precision is that of finance. As far back as 1671 the Commons resolved "That, in all aids given to the King, by the Commons,...Rate or Tax ought not to be altered by the Lords" ; l and in 1678 they adopted another resolution that all bills granting supplies "ought to begin with... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1902 - 882 pages
...Resolution of the other House which now regulates this matter was passed in 1671, and is as follows — "That in all aids given to the King by the Commons...rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords," and there is a second Resolution dated July 3rd, 1678, which declares — " That all aids and supplies... | |
 | 1909 - 1110 pages
...the Commons, on the one hand, maintain the position which the Commons enunciated as far back as 1671, that "in all aids given to the King, by the Commons,...Rate or Tax ought not to be altered by the Lords." As President Lowell says in his work on "The Government of England," "although the Lords have never... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1909 - 710 pages
...halfpenny [and] half [a] farthing, was read the second time and debated ; Resolved, etc., neni. con. That in all aids given to the King by the Commons...rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords.' (9 CJ 235.) This is the first of these important Resolutions. The Commons did not lay the Bill aside,... | |
 | Edward Porritt - 1909 - 656 pages
...amendment was read in the House of Commons it was resolved, nemine contra, " that in all aids to be given to the King by the Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords'." Conference It would seem that the Lords had made the amendment to ?? 5 provoke .another contest -on... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1910 - 330 pages
...resolutions which are the loci classici of the constitutional lawyer. By that of 1671 the Commons affirmed that ' in all aids given to the King by the Commons,...the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords '.1 That of 1678 asserted, ' That all aids and supplies, and aids to His Majesty in Parliament are... | |
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Resolved, &c., iiemine contradicente, that in all aids given to the king by the Commons the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords. (ii) 3 July 1678 Resolved, &c., that all aids and supplies, and aids to his Majesty in Parliament, are the sole... 
