 | Charles Sumner - 1856 - 722 sider
...I know, sir, that it is in form simply a legislative Act ; but as the Act of Settlement in England, declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the Crown, has become a permanent part of the British Constitution, irrepcalable by any common legislation; so... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1857 - 440 sider
...parliament reassembles, Oct. 25. Its chief business was to pass an act [1 Gul. & Mar. sess. 2, c. 2], " declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown." This celebrated statute is in effect the same as the Declaration of Rights which accompanied the tender... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 552 sider
...imaginable respect, and with great tenderness." "The act 1 William and Mary," remarks another contemporary, "declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown, recites the very instrument of conveyance of the crown to the Prince and Princess ; which begins in... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1859 - 644 sider
...this act. APPENDIX VII. BILL OF RIGHTS, PASSED 1 WILLIAM AND MARY, SESS. 2, CH. 2, 1689. AN ACT FOK DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT,...AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN. 1 W. & M. 1689. WHEKEAsthe lords spiritual and temporal, and commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully... | |
 | William Chadwick - 1859 - 482 sider
...(viz., in pursuance of the act passed in the first year of King William and Queen Mary, entitled ' An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown ;' and the act passed in the twelfth and thirteenth of King William, entitled ' An Act for the further... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 sider
...of Charles I. 6 Declaration by Parliament, 13 Feb. 1689, to the Prince and Princess of Orange, 'on the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown', the basis of the Bill of Rights passed by Parliament in Oct. 1689. 7 The 1789 voting system (enfranchising... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1987 - 568 sider
...and Mary accepted the throne, was 'confirmed' by being turned into the Bill of Rights, 'An Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown'. 4 Proverbs 26: 1 1: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. s In a 'royal... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - 1992 - 322 sider
...Americans the Bill of Rights of 1689 was "that second Magna Carta." 64 Its technical title was "An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown." To understand the popular title by which it has always been known and by which the standard, as well... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - 1993 - 244 sider
...it. The English Bill of Rights (1688 old calendar, 1689 current calendar) was entitled "An Act for Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown." The Whigs, influenced by John Locke, changed the terms of the debate from liberties to rights. 1 Here... | |
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AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN. 
