 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 sider
...legislatures, where their right of representation could alone be preserved ; that the respective colonies were entitled to the common law of England, and more especially...the vicinage, according to the course of that law ; that they were entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1851 - 566 sider
...free governments, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council. That you were entitled to the common law of England, and more especially...great and inestimable privilege of being tried by your peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. That it is indispensably necessary... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1852 - 90 sider
...the British Constitution. 54 Imbued by these, the earliest Continental Congress, in 1774, declared, " That the respective Colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage according... | |
 | 1853 - 514 sider
...taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent. " 5. That the respective colonies are entitled to the...the vicinage, according to the course of that law. "6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of... | |
 | 1853 - 832 sider
...first Congress, assembled in 1774, in their famous declaration of the rights of the colonies, asserted, 'that the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England;' and 'that they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - 1854 - 422 sider
...their celebrated Declaration of Rights, of the 14th of October, 1774. They unanimously resolved, " That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England," * * and that " their ancestors at the time of their emigration were entitled" (not to the " rights of men,"... | |
 | George White - 1855 - 872 sider
...or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America without their consent. Sixtlily. — That the respective colonies are entitled to the common...the vicinage, according to the course of that law. Seventhly. — That they are entitled to the benefit of snch of the Englith statutes as existed at... | |
 | George White - 1855 - 844 sider
...internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America without their consent. SixMy. — That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more espeoialfy to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 338 sider
...or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent. Resolved, NCD 5. That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England,_ and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1856 - 858 sider
...Philadelphia, on the 5th September, 1774, did, on the 6th of October following, resolve among other things, " that the respective colonies are entitled to the common...peers of the vicinage, according to the course of the common law," &c. * This right of trial by jury,vfhen interpreted by the common law. and by the... | |
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That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. 
