 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1817 - 726 Seiten
...integrity of that body after its election, by enactmg that — ' No person ' who has an office, or piace of profit under ' the king, or receives a pension...be capable of serving as a ' member of the House of Commons/ 12 W. 3rd ch. 2. " Having thus secured the purity and independence of the people's representatives... | |
 | 1824 - 770 Seiten
...By the Act of Settlement, it was ordained that no person who has an office, or place of profit, from the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Com. mons, which was subsequently modi lied by acts of Parliament, passed in the reigns of Queen Anne... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1818 - 748 Seiten
...council as shall advise and consent to the same ' " Also, That the farther provision by the said act, ' that no person who has an office, or place of profit,...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Cominons : " Resolved, That the foregoing were, in a great degree, wise and wnolesome provisions, made... | |
 | David Hume - 1819 - 448 Seiten
...military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements, or hereditaments from the crown to himself, or to any others in trust for him: that no person who has an...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as member of the house of commons : that, after the limitation shall take effect, judges' commissions... | |
 | John Nicholls - 1822 - 264 Seiten
...military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements, or hereditaments from the crown to himself, or to any others in trust for him ; that no person who has an...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as member of the House of Commons ; that after the limitation shall take effect, Judges' commissions be... | |
 | Squib-book - 1820 - 154 Seiten
...demonstrates the excellence of that now obsolete principle of the constitution, by which H is declared, that no person " who has an office or place of profit...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving a« a member of the House of Commons." i It is but too probable that the 900 signatures so promptly... | |
 | Sussex - 1820 - 352 Seiten
...placed the House of Hanover on the English throne, it was recognized as the constitutional principle, that " No person who has an office, or place of profit under the King, or receives^, pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons." Are the people... | |
 | John Wade - 1820 - 496 Seiten
...a vast majority of the house, disqualified for their seats by the Act of Settlement, which says, " no person who has an office or place of profit under the king," &c. See the motto. 6.— Miscellaneous. These are principally bankers, a few merchants and traders,... | |
 | 1832 - 428 Seiten
...securing the rights and liber" " ties of the subject," — it was wisely " and honestly thus enacted — " That no " " person who has an office or place of "...capable of serving as a member of " " the House of Commons." — But Mr. Wliitbread, it seems, never heard of " this provision — " for better securing... | |
 | John Somers Baron Somers - 1821 - 162 Seiten
...representative being designed as a check on the executive power, it was wisely ordained by the Act of Settlement that, " no person who has an office or place of profit...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons." By subsequent enactments this was repealed; ministers and their minions now swarm in the... | |
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That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons. 
