...contract to let rooms for such lectures to the plaintiff. The Chief Baron went the full length of saying that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land, and that, therefore, to support and maintain publicly the propositions announced could not be done...

...conduct of Carlile, I yet hold with him as against his judges and persecutors. I hold the assertion that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land, to be an absurdity. It might as well be said because there is, or might be, a law to protect carpenters...

...and remarked of an attempt to suppress free opinion under the blasphemy laws, 'I hold the assertion, that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land, to be an absurdity . . . Carlile may be wrong; A/V persecutors undoubtedly are so.' Of the petty elements...

...Robert Monsey Rolfe, afterwards Lord Chancellor Cranworth, who, hearing on one occasion someone declare that "Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land," turned to his friend Crabb Robinson and asked, "Were you ever employed to draw an indictment against...

...Bible' cartoons. Lord Coleridge, in summing up, disputed the rule of law upheld in Cowan v. Milbourn, that 'Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land'; he made a distinction between indecency and blasphemy; and he made legal history by emphasizing the...

...Baron Kelly of the Court of Exchequer reasoned that, because there "is abundant authority for saying that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land," the proposed lectures could not be delivered "without blasphemy." Given that the lectures were never...

...law was not against the Jews ; yet how could that assertion be reconciled with the great law maxim, that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land, which had been promulgated by one of our greatest and wisest Judges, and adhered to for the last 200...

...elected to Municipal Offices," is now before your honourable House. That your Petitioners, knowing that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land, and that this country is professedly Christian, view with alarm any measure which tends to admit to...

...and the prison, so great a step would never have been made. The question is now as above. The dictum that Christianity is ' part and parcel of the law of the land ' is also abrogated : at the same time, and the coincidence is not an accident, it is becoming somewhat...

...provisions only develop and apply the old doctrine of the common law, both in England and America, that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land ; and it may be doubted whether a great part of the early legislation of Massachusetts, which Mr. Hildreth...