The Textbook of the Constitution: Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and the Bill of RightsRichard Bentley, 1848 - 63 pagina's |
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Abbot according aforesaid ancient archbishops aristocracy assent authority bailiffs BILL OF RIGHTS bishops boroughs cause Chapter of John's compurgators Confirmatio Chartarum confirmed County Court criminal crown debt divers Earl elected England exercise five-and-twenty barons franchise free customs freeholders freeman granted grievances habeas corpus Hallam hath heirs Henry Henry III hereditary hold holden House of Commons House of Lords imprisoned John John's Charter judgment jurors justice justiciary King Edward king's kingdom kingdom of England knights land laws and statutes lords spiritual lower orders Magna Charta Majesties middle classes ministers nation Norman oath offence officers original peerage peers persons Petition of Right political prerogative present prince principles privy council punishment realm redress Reform Bill reign rights and liberties royal Saxon scutages sheriffs shire sovereign spiritual and temporal subjects summoned tallage tenements tenure thereof things tion towns Trial by Jury trial by ordeal unto villein vote writ
Populaire passages
Pagina 44 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence and prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Pagina 25 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Pagina 44 - 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.
Pagina 44 - 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.
Pagina 38 - ... certify the causes of their detainer, no cause was certified, but that they were detained by your Majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your Privy Council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being charged with anything to which they might make answer according to the law.
Pagina 45 - ... to be to the heirs of the body of the said Princess ; and for default of such issue, to the Princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue, to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Pagina 44 - Highness the Prince of Orange will perfect the deliverance so far advanced by him, and will still preserve them from the violation of their rights, which they have here asserted, and from all other attempts upon their religion, rights, a.nd liberties: II.
Pagina 8 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water : furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Pagina 11 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Pagina 46 - Crown, and for preserving a certainty in the succession thereof, in and upon which the unity, peace, tranquillity, and safety of this nation doth, under God, wholly consist and depend, the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, do beseech their Majesties that it may be enacted, established, and declared, that the Crown and regal government of the said kingdoms and dominions, with all and singular the premises...