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... measure which the house of commons is determined to carry . The same thing is even more completely true of the king , who is supposed even to have no opinion on any political question except that of the cabinet in office , and who never ...
... measure which the house of commons is determined to carry . The same thing is even more completely true of the king , who is supposed even to have no opinion on any political question except that of the cabinet in office , and who never ...
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... measures rather than men and gives to it the character of a referendum . The fact also that the new parliament goes into session at orce after an election makes the popular decision immediately effective . The progress of democracy ...
... measures rather than men and gives to it the character of a referendum . The fact also that the new parliament goes into session at orce after an election makes the popular decision immediately effective . The progress of democracy ...
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... measured distance , and his guilt or innocence was determined by the character of the wound after a certain number of ... measure a fine for his own offences , that is , he was called on to redeem his life . Amounts to be paid were fixed ...
... measured distance , and his guilt or innocence was determined by the character of the wound after a certain number of ... measure a fine for his own offences , that is , he was called on to redeem his life . Amounts to be paid were fixed ...
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... measure of institutional importance gave greater independence to the church . By a notification sent out probably early in his reign , William made known an act of a legislative character by king and great council declar- ing the ...
... measure of institutional importance gave greater independence to the church . By a notification sent out probably early in his reign , William made known an act of a legislative character by king and great council declar- ing the ...
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... measure of one hundred acres for the carucate . As in the Domesday survey it was a county court which was called to meet them but the tax was assessed in each vill by its reeve and four men , assisted by two elected knights for the ...
... measure of one hundred acres for the carucate . As in the Domesday survey it was a county court which was called to meet them but the tax was assessed in each vill by its reeve and four men , assisted by two elected knights for 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...