| George Bowyer - 1841 - 742 pages
...constitution, that it is declared in one of the articles of the bill of rights,1 that the raising or keeping up a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of parliament, is against law. And the army is ipso facto disbanded at the expiration of... | |
| Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1841 - 462 pages
...present sovereign lord the king now has it. Indeed the bill of rights declares among other things, that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in a time of peace, unless with the consent of parliament, is against law. And it is said, that upon the... | |
| Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 pages
...the nation, increased his guards to 80,000. In the bill of rights of William III., it was declared that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless with consent of parliament, is against law ; nevertheless a force, varying in its numbers, has ever... | |
| William Whewell - 1845 - 434 pages
...Subjects to petition the King, and that all commitments or persecutions for such petitions are illegal : That the raising or keeping a standing army within...peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is illegal : That the subjects which are protestants, may have arms for their defence suitable to their... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1846 - 644 pages
...commitments or prosecutions for such petitions are illegal ; That the raising • Parl. Hist. v. 54. or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time...peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is illegal ; That the subjects which are protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their... | |
| Henry Marshall - 1846 - 408 pages
...crowned King and Queen of England. The Declaration of Rights to which William and Mary assented, stated, that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, is against law. Two Scotch regiments, which were quartered in England,... | |
| George Crosby - 1847 - 424 pages
...not to be impeached or questioned in any other place or court out of Parliament. It was also declared that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law ; and even in time of war, the maintenance of a military... | |
| 1848 - 558 pages
...which are now, though only partially, in force (a). It is one of the articles of the Bill of Rights, that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law ; hut it has for many years past been annually judged necessary... | |
| 1849 - 138 pages
...town. — Gordon, i. 207. — D. to the very letter of the Bill of Rights, in which it is declared, that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of parliament, is against law, and without the desire of the civil magistrates, to aid... | |
| Parliamentary and political miscellany - 1851 - 714 pages
...subjects to petition the King, and that all commitments or prosecutions for such petitions are illegal; That the raising or keeping a standing army within...peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is illegal ; That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their... | |
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