...ministers, or justices of peace ? Why, what have you to answer in favour of the prior rights of the crow11 and peerage, but this — our constitution is a prescriptive...has existed time out of mind. It is settled in these /;;•••' portions against one, legislatively ; and in the whole of the judicature, the whole of...

...Commons, of the very same origin, and ' of no other. Our constitution is a prescriptive consti* tution : it is a constitution whose sole authority is, that it has ' existed time out of mind.' Again, speaking of the constitution of the House of Commons, Mr. Burke said : ' To ask whether ' a...

...they neither to have the choice of kings, or lords, or judges, or generals, or admirals, or hishops, iterally. Others allow prodential and the financial administration, in one alone. Nor was your house of lords and the prerogatives...

...will agree, it is on this of the inviolability of the Constitution. Ours is not yet a prescriptive Constitution, " whose sole authority is, that it has existed time out of mind." At a moment of our history when the equal necessity of an union of all the citizens, and the preservation...

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...or bishops, or priests, or ministers, or justices of peace ? Why, what have you to answer in favor of the prior rights of the crown and peerage but this:...constitution whose sole authority is, that it has existed tune out of mind? It is settled in these two portions against one, legislatively, — and in the whole...

...his mind to the principle of mos majorum, the glorification of the constitution as it stands — the constitution "whose sole authority is that it has existed time out of mind." And to say that the principle of political action is the paramount authority of the past, is quite...

...Warburton had appealed to prescription, as a barrier to natural right, in defending the Test Act.) "Our constitution is a prescriptive constitution;...authority is, that it has existed time out of mind." Prescription was a better source of rightful authority than election, because prescription showed the...

...speaking of natural right, which, as such, is anterior to the British constitution. But he also says that "our constitution is a prescriptive constitution;...authority is that it has existed time out of mind" or that. the British constitution claims and asserts the liberties of the British "as an estate especially...

...The second passage appears in the Speech on Reform of the Representation. Quoted in part, it reads: Our Constitution is a prescriptive constitution; it...authority is, that it has existed time out of mind. . . .Your king, your lords, your judges, your juries ... all are prescriptive; and what proves it is...