| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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