 | 1915 - 354 pages
...administration of the courts being under absolute dominion of Parliament. Blackstone says of Parliament: "It can change and create afresh even the Constitution of the Kingdom and of Parliament themsleves, as was done by the act of Union, and the several statutes for triennial and... | |
 | 1915 - 364 pages
...administration of the courts being under absolute dominion of Parliament. Blackstone says of Parliament: "It can change and create afresh even the Constitution of the Kingdom and of Parliament themsleves, as was done by the act of Union, and the several statutes for triennial and... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - 1995 - 490 pages
...alter the established religion, it can change the constitution of the kingdom and Parliament itself. "It can, in short, do every thing that is not naturally impossible. . . ."13 It is true that Blackstone frequently seems to assume that Parliament cannot do what it ought... | |
 | Christopher W. Morris - 2002 - 320 pages
...or new model the succession of the crown. ... It can alter the established religion of the land. ... It can change and create afresh even the constitution...can, in short, do every thing that is not naturally impossible.20 Classical sovereignty no longer is as popular as it once was. It is now widely thought... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2000 - 804 pages
...land; as was done in a variety of instances in the reigns of King Henry VIII and his three children. It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom [the italics are Tocqueville's] and of parliaments themselves; as was done by the act of union, and... | |
 | John Curtis Samples - 2002 - 260 pages
...parliamentary sovereignty was no longer a dream in 1765, when Blackstone wrote that Parliament could "change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of parliaments themselves." Parliament could, in his famous phrase, "do every thing that is not naturally impossible."27 As a great... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 758 pages
...land; as was done in a variety of instances in the reigns of King Henry VIII. and his three children. It can change and create afresh even the Constitution of the kingdom, and of parliaments themselves; as was done by the Act of Union and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 996 pages
...land; as was done in a variety of instances, in the reigns of king Henry VIII and his three children. It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of parliaments themselves; as was done by the act of union, and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It... | |
 | Janet Ajzenstat - 2003 - 518 pages
...acts approved or condemned." fined, either from cause or persons within any bounds . . . [Parliament] can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of parliament themselves ... It can in short, do anything that is not naturally impossible. [Emphasis... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2004 - 960 pages
...land, as was done in a variety of instances in the reigns of King Henry VIII and his three children. It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of parliaments themselves, as was done by the act of union and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It... | |
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It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of Parliaments themselves ; as was done by the act of union, and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections. It can, in short, do everything that is not naturally... 
