The Government of England: Its Structure, and Its DevelopmentLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867 - 569 Seiten |
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... tion of those sages of the law whose special duty it is to advise the Crown on all such questions . The whole execu- tive authority rests in the King ; and for his assistance in affairs of state the law assigns his Privy Council . Every ...
... tion of those sages of the law whose special duty it is to advise the Crown on all such questions . The whole execu- tive authority rests in the King ; and for his assistance in affairs of state the law assigns his Privy Council . Every ...
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... tion as the law requires or permits subjects to notice . Thus no injury , no legal wrong , can be done by the King , be- cause all his official acts are done in accordance with law , and because no unlawful act can be recognized as an ...
... tion as the law requires or permits subjects to notice . Thus no injury , no legal wrong , can be done by the King , be- cause all his official acts are done in accordance with law , and because no unlawful act can be recognized as an ...
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... tion , has lasted almost to our own day . It was far from being settled by the Revolution , as the disputes with his Parliament which embittered William's life too well attested . It is to the fortunate incapacity of the first two Hano ...
... tion , has lasted almost to our own day . It was far from being settled by the Revolution , as the disputes with his Parliament which embittered William's life too well attested . It is to the fortunate incapacity of the first two Hano ...
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... tion of the Crown . It was , as we shall presently see , doubtful whether any statute could contradict or expressly repeal these national customs . Certain it was that , if a statute had such power , nothing but the clearest words could ...
... tion of the Crown . It was , as we shall presently see , doubtful whether any statute could contradict or expressly repeal these national customs . Certain it was that , if a statute had such power , nothing but the clearest words could ...
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... tion given to courts of arbitrary discretion , which discretion was often wrongly exercised ; and that the wrong done by an illegal proclamation was often put forward as a prece- dent to countenance and warrant further illegalities ...
... tion given to courts of arbitrary discretion , which discretion was often wrongly exercised ; and that the wrong done by an illegal proclamation was often put forward as a prece- dent to countenance and warrant further illegalities ...
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Seite 476 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Seite 6 - You will observe, that, from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Seite 75 - By pretext whereof some of Your Majesty's subjects have been by some of the said commissioners put to death, when and where, if, by the laws and statutes of the land, they had deserved death, by the same laws and statutes also they might, and by no other ought, to have been judged and executed.
Seite 170 - ... no peace could be safe or honourable to Great Britain or Europe, if Spain and the West Indies should be allotted to any branch of the house of Bourbon.
Seite 229 - That her Majesty's Ministers do not sufficiently possess the confidence of the House of Commons to enable "them to carry through the House measures which they deem of essential importance to the public welfare ; and that their continuance in office under such circumstances is at variance with the spirit of the Constitution.
Seite 145 - ... likely to embarrass them. If they forfeit that confidence, if the parliamentary majority is dissatisfied with the way in which patronage is distributed, with the way in which the prerogative of mercy is used, with the conduct of foreign affairs, with the conduct of a war, the remedy is simple. It is not necessary that the Commons should take on themselves the business of administration, that they should request the Crown to make this man a bishop and that man a judge, to pardon one criminal and...
Seite 73 - King said, that he thought the law was founded upon reason, and that he and others had reason, as well as the Judges : to which it was answered by me, thai true it was, that God had endowed His Majesty with excellent science, and great endowments of nature; but His Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England, and causes which concern the life, or inheritance, or goods, or fortunes of his subjects...
Seite 289 - England, to define the limits of its jurisdiction ; by the first of which it is " accorded and assented, that the admirals and their deputies shall not meddle from henceforth of anything done within the realm, but only of a thing done upon the sea, as it hath been used in the time of the noble prince King Edward, grandfather of our Lord the King that now is
Seite 53 - Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever ; but the matters which are to be established for the estate of our lord the King and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments, by our lord the King, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm ; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Seite 73 - ... the artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an art which requires long study and experience, before that a man can attain to the cognizance of it...