Rise of Constitutional Government in EnglandRivingtons, 1883 - Всего страниц: 264 |
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... took the place of the priests mentioned by Tacitus ; ( 4 ) the king's thegens . These thanes were the successors of the old thanes of the ealdormen ; but when the ealdorman in Germany became a king in the new island , his thanes rose ...
... took the place of the priests mentioned by Tacitus ; ( 4 ) the king's thegens . These thanes were the successors of the old thanes of the ealdormen ; but when the ealdorman in Germany became a king in the new island , his thanes rose ...
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... took the lead . This was natural , for Kent had been settled longest , had no fighting with the Britons , and quickly gained a smattering of civilization from the continent . Kent , however , never seems to have established a recognized ...
... took the lead . This was natural , for Kent had been settled longest , had no fighting with the Britons , and quickly gained a smattering of civilization from the continent . Kent , however , never seems to have established a recognized ...
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... took up one policy or another , and left to weak kings like Harthacnut or Edward the Confessor no choice but to act as mediators between them , a state of things which prepared the way for the Norman Conquest . While these changes were ...
... took up one policy or another , and left to weak kings like Harthacnut or Edward the Confessor no choice but to act as mediators between them , a state of things which prepared the way for the Norman Conquest . While these changes were ...
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... took as his successor , Harold , head of the house of Godwin . The accession of Harold roused William to action . To be deprived of his hope of the accession was bad , but to be ousted by Harold , the representative of the English house ...
... took as his successor , Harold , head of the house of Godwin . The accession of Harold roused William to action . To be deprived of his hope of the accession was bad , but to be ousted by Harold , the representative of the English house ...
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... took care that the grants should not lie together , but should be scattered over the country . For instance , Odo of Bayeux had property in seventeen different counties , which utterly crippled his military power , and the estates of ...
... took care that the grants should not lie together , but should be scattered over the country . For instance , Odo of Bayeux had property in seventeen different counties , which utterly crippled his military power , and the estates of ...
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Стр. 193 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Стр. 193 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Стр. 253 - Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that Minister. She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign Ministers before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time ; and to have the drafts for her approval sent to her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they...
Стр. 253 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing...
Стр. 193 - 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.
Стр. 193 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Стр. 191 - The most important of these differences was encountered and settled by the Commons, in their great vote of the 28th of January : " Resolved, That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become...
Стр. 192 - By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament; 5.
Стр. 121 - He is above the law by his absolute power, and though for the better and equal course in making laws he do admit the three estates unto council, yet this in divers learned men's opinion is not of constraint but of his own benignity, or by reason of the promise made upon oath at the time of his coronation.