 | Robert Ashton - History - 1970 - 144 pages
...limited power to govern by and according to the laws of the land but not otherwise, but he had conceived a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an...overthrow the rights and liberties of the people". In pursuit of this design he had 'traitorously and maliciously levied war against the present Parliament... | |
 | Blair Worden - History - 1977 - 444 pages
...High Court of Justice, which began its sessions four days later. On 27 January Charles, charged with 'a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an...to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the i On those inconveniences see JS Morrill. 'Mutiny and discontent in English provincial armies 1645-1647',... | |
 | J. P. Kenyon - History - 1990 - 272 pages
...benefit of the people, and for the preservation of their rights and liberties'. Instead he had conceived 'a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an...unlimited and tyrannical power, to rule according to his will'.10 Therefore it was no accident that immediately after the Revolution there broke out a fierce... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - Philosophy - 1999 - 332 pages
...for the preservation of their rights and liberties." The king was charged with the attempt to erect "an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will" and to overthrow the liberties of the people, and to have waged war against Parliament for this reason (Gardiner, 371 f.).... | |
 | Angus Stroud - History - 1999 - 246 pages
...trust, oath and office, being obliged to use the power committed to him for the good and benefit of the people, and for the preservation of their rights and...and tyrannical power to rule according to his will . . . the said Charles Stuart ... hath traitorously and maliciously levied war against the present... | |
 | Anthony W. Marx - Political Science - 2005 - 288 pages
...more quickly. Charles, defeated by superior force, was charged with "wicked design to erect and uphold himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule...to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people . . . against the public interest, common right, liberty, justice and peace of the people of this nation."... | |
 | Ros Adams - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 228 pages
...to govern according to the laws of the land, had a wicked design to create for himself an unlimited power to rule according to his will and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people. To do this he treacherously waged a war against Parliament and the people. He is thus responsible for... | |
 | Quentin Skinner, Bo Stråth - History - 2003 - 248 pages
...but the abolition of the monarchy. The charge against Charles I at his trial was that he had sought 'to erect, and uphold in himself an unlimited and Tyrannical power to rule according to his Will', a course of action designed not merely 'to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People' but 'to... | |
 | Business & Economics - 2002 - 566 pages
...servitude see Skinner (2(K)2a). pp. 338 42. 93 Reasons ((642). p. 14. 94 Husbands et al. (1643). p. 509. uphold in himself an unlimited and Tyrannical power to rule according to his WilF , a course of action designed not merely 'to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People'... | |
 | Dawn Archer - Reference - 2005 - 396 pages
...trusted with a limited power to govern by, and according to the laws of the land, and not otherwise [...} yet nevertheless out of a wicked Design, to erect,...to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People [...] hath Trayterously and maliciously levyed War against the present Parliament, and the People therein... | |
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... a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people... 
