A Complete Collection of the Protests of the Lords: 1741-1825Clarendon Press, 1875 - Great Britain |
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... Parliament being only nomi- nated by the Crown , and long since reduced , by ministerial arts , from their original power and dignity , to be no more than courts of justice and revenue . 7thly , Because we apprehend , that this method ...
... Parliament being only nomi- nated by the Crown , and long since reduced , by ministerial arts , from their original power and dignity , to be no more than courts of justice and revenue . 7thly , Because we apprehend , that this method ...
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... Parliament , which could hardly have been the case of any equal number of regiments in the whole service . And what further induces us to entertain those suspicions is , that this method of augmentation , by one - third the most ...
... Parliament , which could hardly have been the case of any equal number of regiments in the whole service . And what further induces us to entertain those suspicions is , that this method of augmentation , by one - third the most ...
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords James Edwin Thorold Rogers. effects of ministerial favour or resentment ... Parliaments can alone destroy the essence of our Constitution , and open violence alone the forms of it . John Ward ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords James Edwin Thorold Rogers. effects of ministerial favour or resentment ... Parliaments can alone destroy the essence of our Constitution , and open violence alone the forms of it . John Ward ...
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords James Edwin Thorold Rogers. CCCXIX . FEBRUARY 13 , 1741 . The Opposition ... Parliament for the defence of it , had been managed , both as to rewards and punishments , in such manner as to make ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords James Edwin Thorold Rogers. CCCXIX . FEBRUARY 13 , 1741 . The Opposition ... Parliament for the defence of it , had been managed , both as to rewards and punishments , in such manner as to make ...
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... Parliament , to establish grievances instead of redressing them ; to approve implicitly the measures of a Court without information ; to support and screen the minis- ters they ought to control or punish , and to grant money without ...
... Parliament , to establish grievances instead of redressing them ; to approve implicitly the measures of a Court without information ; to support and screen the minis- ters they ought to control or punish , and to grant money without ...
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Page 77 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Page 202 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 315 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.
Page 53 - That in case the Crown and imperial dignity of this Realm shall hereafter come to any person not being a native of this Kingdom of England this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England without the consent of Parliament.
Page 88 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 234 - ... defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information.
Page 126 - Majesty, his heirs or successors ; and such marriage shall be good, as if this Act had never been made, unless both Houses of Parliament shall, before the expiration of the said twelve months, expressly declare their disapprobation of such intended marriage.
Page 256 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland or Ireland or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament, or to enjoy any office or place of trust, either civil or military...
Page 483 - That an humble address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to...
Page 308 - An act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts...