That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn... The History of England - Page 282de Sir James Mackintosh - 1838Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - 546 pages
...circumstantial.* But all this guard, and all this * " That King James the Second, having endeavored to rubvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having... | |
| 1840 - 1176 pages
...bestowed on them. The Commons resolve, on the 28th of January, " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 476 pages
...voice of the two houses of parliament met in convention, who declared, "that King James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...breaking the original contract between king and people, » See Allen's Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative, p. 48. f 7 Henry IV. e. 2.... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1840 - 576 pages
...question of the state of the nation, (2Sth;) and it was resolved, " That king James II., having endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking...the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having... | |
| 1840 - 946 pages
...law itself. The Lords and Commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that ' King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...breaking the original contract between king and people, having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself, had abdicated the government; and that... | |
| William Smyth - 1840 - 514 pages
...produce only the following heterogeneous and inconsistent vote : — " That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract lietween king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the... | |
| William Smyth - 1841 - 518 pages
...produce only the following heterogeneous and inconsistent vote : — " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom...the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and having... | |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1841 - 186 pages
...could these theorists have said, against a declaration on the part of a convention, that " — having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...breaking the original contract between king and people, has abdicated or forfeited the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant ?" Even they could... | |
| Mary Bowley - 1842 - 538 pages
...vacant by the abdication of James ; the resolution being thus framed: " That king James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...the original contract between king and people; and having, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pages
...and which, indeed, was eventually voted by a large majority, — " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...the original contract between King and People, and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn... | |
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