 | Charles Saumarez Smith - Architecture - 1990 - 221 pages
...Parliament on 19June 1909, the WSPU issued leaflets quoting the 1 689 Bill of Rights: 'It is the right of subjects to petition the King, and all commitments...and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.' In their view this obliged Asquith to receive their deputation as the King's representative, and rendered... | |
 | History - 1992 - 261 pages
...became for the first time unquestionably legal. Article five of the Declaration of Rights declared "That it is the right of the subjects to petition...commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal."36 Petitions provided information, they politicized interest group members who might otherwise... | |
 | Margaret Lucille Kekewich - History - 1994 - 257 pages
...Parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal. 5. That it is the right of the subjects to Petition the...petitioning are illegal. 6. That the raising or keeping of a Standing Army within the Kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament,... | |
 | Marie Mulvey Roberts, Tamae Mizuta - History - 1994 - 3040 pages
...in thought and action, made a large block and on it was written : " It is the right of the subject to petition the King, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal." She printed these words on the wall of the Outer Lobby. An act of defiance such as this meant imprisonment.... | |
 | David Nicholls - History - 1995 - 278 pages
...William of Orange to become king. The Bill of Rights of 1688 had affirmed that 'it is the right of subjects to petition the king and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;'20 but regulations were soon made for restricting the numbers allowed to present a petition.... | |
 | Sophia A. van Wingerden - Political Science - 1999 - 227 pages
...recognized by the statute of 13 Charles II.75 The Bill of Rights said, 'it is the right of the subject to petition the King and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal'; the statute of 13 Charles II, by setting limitations on the right of petition, implicitly recognized... | |
 | Terry Eastland - Law - 2000 - 397 pages
...representatives is not disputed. Even as far back as 1689, the Bill of Rights exacted of William and Mary said: "It is the Right of the Subjects to petition the King,...and Prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal." And 178 years ago the Declaration of Rights of the Continental Congress proclaimed to the monarch of... | |
 | June Purvis, Sandra Stanley Holton - Political Science - 2000 - 297 pages
...printed on the wall of St Stephen's Hall in the House of Commons an extract from the 1689 Bill of Rights: 'It is the right of the subjects to petition the King. and all committ^"> ments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.' Five days later. Emmeline led... | |
 | H. C. Frederick Lansberry - History - 2001 - 302 pages
...government of this realm'. In spite of clause 4 of the Bill of Rights of 1689, that it is the right of subjects to petition the King and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal,112 the promoter of the Petition, William Colepeper, and Thomas Colepeper, David Polhill, Justinian... | |
 | Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - Political Science - 2002 - 326 pages
...Parlyament, for longer time, or in other manner, then the same is or shall be granted, is illegall. That it is the right of the subjects to petition the King and all committments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegall. That the raising or keeping a standing... | |
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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. 
