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" That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn... "
Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books - Page 211
by Sir William Blackstone - 1807
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A key to both houses of parliament

Parliament lists - 1832 - 1026 pages
...Commons immediately resolved that '• King James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution by breaking the original contract between King and...by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom ; had abdicated the...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...resting merely in contract. It is in the following words : " Resolved, that King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom...by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, hath abdicated the...
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs ...

Biography - 1834 - 454 pages
...party. The throne was declared vacant by the following vote: — " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom...the original contract between king and people ; and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn...
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The American Christian Expositor: Designed to Promote the ..., Volume 1

1831 - 500 pages
...whig and tory, the memorable vote was passed in these words : " That king James II. having endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking...the original contract between king and people ; and having by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persrns violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 1

1833 - 540 pages
...made of the resolution of the legislature, in 1688, that King James II. had, by acts subversive of the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, virtually renounced the authority which ho claimed by that very constitution, and that, therefore,...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 1094 pages
...made of the resolution of the legislature, in 1688, that King James II. had, by acts subversive of the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, virtually renounced the authority which he claimed by that very constitution, and that, therefore,...
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History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of ..., Volume 2

Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 418 pages
...the committee came to the following memorable resolution : — " That King James -the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, has abdicated...
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The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 6, The Rise of Great Britain and ...

J. S. Bromley - History - 1970 - 992 pages
...of Commons, which resolved That King James II having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of this kingdom, by breaking the original contract between...by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, hath abdicated...
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Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in ...

Corinne Comstock Weston, Janelle Renfrow Greenberg - History - 2003 - 440 pages
...of commons voted on January 28, with only one dissentient voice: that King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom,...by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, has abdicated...
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Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government

Richard Ashcraft - Philosophy - 1986 - 644 pages
...Convention represented a compromise, reflecting both positions: King James the Second, having endeavored to subvert the Constitution of the kingdom by breaking...the original contract between king and people; and . . . having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, hath abdicated...
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