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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. "
Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books - Page 412
by Sir William Blackstone - 1807
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European Military Law Systems

Georg Nolte - Law - 2003 - 944 pages
...to strict logic. Section 1 (6) of the Bill of Rights 1689 provided that 'the raising and keeping of a standing army within the Kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament is against law.' It became the practice of Parliament to pass an annual Mutiny...
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The Library of Original Sources: Volume VII: Era of Revolution

Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...subjects to petition the king and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. That the raising or keeping a standing army within...unless it be with consent of parliament is against law. That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defense suitable to their conditions...
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So it Was Written

Patriot Hall - History - 2004 - 346 pages
...petition the King, and all committments [sic] 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,...
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The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era

Micheline Ishay - History - 2004 - 461 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...unless it be with consent of parliament, is against the law. 7. That the subjects which are protestants, may have arms for their defence suitable to their...
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Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century

Jeremy Black - History - 2004 - 279 pages
...standing (permanentl army unless permitted by Parliament. The Declaration of Rights of 1689 had declared that 'the raising or keeping a standing army within...kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent to Parliament, is against law', a determined assertion of the role of Parliament as the arbiter of...
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The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights: A History of ...

Alexander Leslie Klieforth, Robert John Munro - History - 2004 - 452 pages
...petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. 6. I hat 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. 7. That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms...
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Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick: Volume 22, Part 1

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 428 pages
...without the consent of Parliament." Likewise, the prohibition against "the raising or keeping [of] a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament" seems to impose a duty on the King. Substance of Rights. The American Declaration...
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Our Republican Constitution

Adam Tomkins - History - 2005 - 168 pages
...king, and all commitments [ie, imprisonments] and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. VI. Raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom...unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law . . . VIII. Election of members of Parliament ought to be free. IX. The freedom of speech and debates...
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The Devil's Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law

Michael S Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell - Law - 2006 - 456 pages
...spirit of Magna Carta — 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 aid...
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Armed Forces Bill: Special Report of Session 2005-06, Volume 2

Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill - Political Science - 2006 - 348 pages
...insertion in the Bill of Rights of the famous Article VI, laying down that "the raising or keeping of a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace unless it be with the consent of Parliament is against the law". Out of this developed the current practice of annual...
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