 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1848 - 76 pages
...subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.* 6. That the raising or keeping a standing army within...it be with consent of parliament, is against law. -1 7. That the subjects which are Protestants, may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions,... | |
 | Political science - 1848 - 536 pages
...to be the destruction of the liberties of Englishmen. In the Bill of Rights (J689) it was declared that the raising or keeping a standing army within...it be with consent of parliament, is against law. An army varying in its numbers has ever since been maintained, and is now looked on without apprehension.... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...which are now, though only partially, in force (a). It is one of the articles of the Bill of Rights, that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law ; hut it has for many years past been annually judged necessary... | |
 | Boston Massacre, 1770 - 1849 - 138 pages
...town. — Gordon, i. 207. — D. to the very letter of the Bill of Rights, in which it is declared, that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of parliament, is against law, and without the desire of the civil magistrates, to aid... | |
 | Parliamentary and political miscellany - 1851 - 714 pages
...right of the subjects to petition the King, and that all commitments or prosecutions for such petitions are illegal; That the raising or keeping a standing...peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is illegal ; That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their... | |
 | James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1852 - 762 pages
...of the Magna Charta, — contrary to the very letter of the bill of rights, in which it is declared that the raising or keeping a standing -army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law, — and without the desire of the civil magistrates, to... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Democracy - 1853 - 842 pages
...subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. 6. That the raising or keeping a standing army within...it be with consent of parliament, is against law. 7. That the subjects which are protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions,... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1853 - 364 pages
...subjects to petition the King, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.* 6. That the raising or keeping a standing army within...it be with consent of Parliament, is against law. 7. That the subjects which are Protestants, may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions,... | |
 | James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1853 - 750 pages
...of the Magna Charta, — contrary to the very letter of the bill of rights, in which it is declared that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be • t with the consent of Parliament, is against law, — and without the desire of the civil magistrates,... | |
 | William Blackstone, Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot - Law - 1853 - 392 pages
...increased by James IL to 30,000 ; and it was therefore made one of the articles of the Bill of Rights, that the raising or keeping a standing army, within the Kingdom, in the time of peace, unless by authority of Parliament, was against law. It is necessary, however, even... | |
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That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law. 
