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... authority in the state , is the con- stitution making body , and every other authority is bound by an act of parliament , even though it changes fundamentally the powers or functions of any part of the state machinery . There is no ...
... authority in the state , is the con- stitution making body , and every other authority is bound by an act of parliament , even though it changes fundamentally the powers or functions of any part of the state machinery . There is no ...
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... authority upon the history of early English law has said : " The written dooms of our kings have been searched over and over again by men skilled in detecting the least shred of Roman law under the most barbaric disguise , and they have ...
... authority upon the history of early English law has said : " The written dooms of our kings have been searched over and over again by men skilled in detecting the least shred of Roman law under the most barbaric disguise , and they have ...
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... authorities had been to a considerable extent broken into by the time of the Con- quest by the growth of private institutions . The rise of private lordships , the extensive practice of commendation , by which poorer men placed ...
... authorities had been to a considerable extent broken into by the time of the Con- quest by the growth of private institutions . The rise of private lordships , the extensive practice of commendation , by which poorer men placed ...
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... authority of a royal writ naming justices to preside , 2 the sheriff was often commis- sioned as the justice or one of them . The fines imposed in these courts , he collected as something additional to his ferm , and his office shared ...
... authority of a royal writ naming justices to preside , 2 the sheriff was often commis- sioned as the justice or one of them . The fines imposed in these courts , he collected as something additional to his ferm , and his office shared ...
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... authority in England was unquestioned . It was a period indeed of steady and sound growth of the royal power , not so much upon the practical side , where it had little need to grow , as in law and institutions . Our evidence of the ...
... authority in England was unquestioned . It was a period indeed of steady and sound growth of the royal power , not so much upon the practical side , where it had little need to grow , as in law and institutions . Our evidence of the ...
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Page 321 - The privilege of election, which belongs to the people, therefore must not be exercised according to their humors, but according to the blessed will and law of God. " III. They who have the power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the power and place unto which they call them.
Page 457 - She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign Ministers before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time ; and to have the drafts for her approval sent to her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they must be sent off.
Page 284 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 321 - Parliament assembled do declare, that the People are, under God, the original of all just power; and do also declare, that the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, being chosen by and representing the People, have the supreme power in this nation...
Page 294 - Majesty, that no Man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any Gift, Loan, Benevolence, Tax or such like Charge, without Common Consent by Act of Parliament...
Page 323 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Page 457 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing...
Page 408 - That it is now necessary to declare, that to report any opinion, or pretended opinion of his Majesty upon any bill or other proceeding depending in either House of Parliament, with a view to influence the votes of the members, is a high crime and misdemeanour, derogatory to the honour of the Crown, a breach of the fundamental privileges of Parliament, and subversive of the Constitution of this country.
Page 199 - Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever ; but the matters which are to be established for the estate of our lord the King and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments, by our lord the King, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm ; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Page 311 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government...