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and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn...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 211by Sir William Blackstone - 1807Full view - About this book
| 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between King and...by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom ; had abdicated the... | |
| 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of the kingdom...by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, hath abdicated the... | |
| 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king and people ; and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn... | |
| 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king and people ; and having by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persrns violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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