 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1853 - 652 pages
...all doubt on this question, it is expressly declared by statute 12 and 13 William III., C. 2, " tiiat the laws of England are the birth-right of the people...government of the same according to the said laws." Blackstone declares, that this is not only consonant to the principles of nature, of liberty, of reason,... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1853 - 672 pages
...all doubt on this question, it is expressly declared by statute 12 and 13 William III., C. 2, " that the laws of England are the birth-right of the people...government of the same according to the said laws." Blackstonc declares, that this is not only consonant to the principles of nature, of liberty, of reason,... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1853 - 200 pages
...noble language of the last clause of the Act of Settlement itself, that "the Laws of England are Ike birthright of the people thereof; and all the kings and queens who shall ascend the throne <>( this realm ought to administer the government of the same according to the said laws; and all tJieir... | |
 | E. S. Creasy - 1854 - 468 pages
...all the subjects' rights. The conclusion of the Act of Settlement is as follows:— " IV. And whereas the laws of England are the birthright of the people...to serve them respectively according to the same: the said Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, do therefore further humbly pray, That all the... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1856 - 858 pages
...was enacted the 12th and 13th statutes of "William III, the 2d chapter of which reads thus : " That the laws of England are the birthright of the people...ascend the throne of this realm ought to administer the same according to the said laws ; and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively... | |
 | William Grapel - 1857 - 86 pages
...Will. 3, C. 2, " that all the Kings and Queens who ascend the Throne of this Realm ought to administer the same according to the said Laws ; and all their...to serve them respectively according to the same; and, therefore, all the Laws and Statutes of this Realm for securing the established Religion, and... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1858 - 718 pages
...difficulties concerning this matter, it is expressly declared by statute 12 & 13 Will. III. c. 2, " that the laws of England are the " birthright of the people..." to serve them respectively according to the same : and " therefore all the laws and statutes of this realm, for " securing the established religion,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 536 pages
...the great seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment by the commons in Parliament. " And whereas the laws of England are the birthright of the people...to serve them respectively according to the same, the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, do therefore humbly pray, that all the laws and... | |
 | David Rowland - 1859 - 606 pages
...securing the rights and liberties of the subject," called the Act of Settlement,3 which declared " that the laws of England are the birthright of the people...ought to serve them respectively according to the same."4 This obligation is enforced on the conscience of the sovereign by the Coronation Oath, by which... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1859 - 854 pages
...the laws and customs of the same."1 The Act 12 & 13 William III. Limitations of c. 2, affirms "that the laws of England are the birthright of the people...government of the same according to the said laws; a^id all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same." And... | |
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And whereas the Laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof, and all the Kings and Queens, who shall ascend the Throne of this realm, ought to administer the Government of the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers... 
