A Manual of Constitutional History Founded on the Works of Hallam, Creasy, May and Broom: Containing the Fundamental Principles and the Leading Cases in Constitutional LawButterworths, 1875 - 266 sider |
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Side iii
... HAMLETS AT THE LATE GENERAL ELECTION , THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO FACILITATE A KNOWLEDGE OF Constitutional Law and History IS INSCRIBED BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND , THE AUTHOR . " PREFACE . THERE is scarcely any branch of learning.
... HAMLETS AT THE LATE GENERAL ELECTION , THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO FACILITATE A KNOWLEDGE OF Constitutional Law and History IS INSCRIBED BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND , THE AUTHOR . " PREFACE . THERE is scarcely any branch of learning.
Side xi
... Elections- Punishing Members - Appropriation of Supplies -Com- mission of Public Accounts - Qualification of Electors- 7 Hen . IV . c . 15-8 Hen . VI . - First Disfranchising Statute on record - Growing Importance of the House of ...
... Elections- Punishing Members - Appropriation of Supplies -Com- mission of Public Accounts - Qualification of Electors- 7 Hen . IV . c . 15-8 Hen . VI . - First Disfranchising Statute on record - Growing Importance of the House of ...
Side 14
... election of the king . Hal- lam says , " It is an unwarranted assertion of Carte , that the rule of the Anglo - Saxon monarchy` was lineal agnatic succession , the blood of the second son having no right until the extinction of that of ...
... election of the king . Hal- lam says , " It is an unwarranted assertion of Carte , that the rule of the Anglo - Saxon monarchy` was lineal agnatic succession , the blood of the second son having no right until the extinction of that of ...
Side 60
... as their election by the whole body of the freeholders , and their separation , along with citizens and bur- gesses , from the house of peers . " CHAPTER III . THE GROWTH OF PARLIAMENT . PART I. 60 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
... as their election by the whole body of the freeholders , and their separation , along with citizens and bur- gesses , from the house of peers . " CHAPTER III . THE GROWTH OF PARLIAMENT . PART I. 60 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
Side 67
... election and return to be made . The burgesses , it will be noticed , claim a prescriptive right from the usage of all past times , and it has been argued that this could not have been said of a privilege at the utmost of fifty years ...
... election and return to be made . The burgesses , it will be noticed , claim a prescriptive right from the usage of all past times , and it has been argued that this could not have been said of a privilege at the utmost of fifty years ...
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Side 48 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR BE DISSEISED OF HIS FREEHOLD, OR LIBERTIES, OR FREE CUSTOMS, OR BE OUTLAWED, OR EXILED, OR ANY OTHERWISE DESTROYED ; NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR SEND UPON HIM, BUT BY LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND. WE WILL SELL TO NO MAN, WE WILL NOT DENY OR DELAY TO ANY MAN, JUSTICE OR RIGHT.* " It is obvious,
Side viii - The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp— and what is writ, is writ; Would it were worthier; but I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flit Less palpably before me — and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.
Side 216 - That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king ; and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.
Side 229 - Judges' Commissions be made Quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established ; but upon the Address of both Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them.
Side 49 - Whether courts of justice framed the writ of Habeas Corpus in conformity to the spirit of this clause, or found it already in their register, it became from that era the right of every subject to demand it.
Side 48 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Side 232 - This sweeping clause of the Act of Settlement never came into operation. It was repealed in the fourth year of Anne's reign. Another Act on the subject was passed in the same reign, by which every member of the House of Commons...
Side 229 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the king, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as member of the house of commons...
Side 220 - ... upon the whole matter in issue : Be it therefore declared and enacted . . . That, on every such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty upon the whole Matter put in issue upon such indictment or information...
Side 167 - They had remonstrated against the usurped prerogatives of binding the subject by proclamation, and of levying customs at the out-ports. They had secured, beyond controversy, their exclusive privilege of determining contested elections of their members. "Of these advantages, some were evidently incomplete, and it would require the most vigorous exertions of future parliaments to realize them.