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+ The word majesty is not , at least was not always , elsential to express that
constitutional deference and respect , which are due to the sovereign ; for ,
according to history , king Henry VIII . was the first of our sovereigns , to whom the
term ...
+ The word majesty is not , at least was not always , elsential to express that
constitutional deference and respect , which are due to the sovereign ; for ,
according to history , king Henry VIII . was the first of our sovereigns , to whom the
term ...
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Talon rogative . him ; and there is a respect , which it would be criminal to withold
from him . " Since it would be treasonable for any Brithe king ' s prea " tish subject
openly to maintain , that the constitution of this kingdom does not vest the ...
Talon rogative . him ; and there is a respect , which it would be criminal to withold
from him . " Since it would be treasonable for any Brithe king ' s prea " tish subject
openly to maintain , that the constitution of this kingdom does not vest the ...
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In like manner treasons , which concern the safety of the kingdom , in respect of
foreign invasion , or open rebellion , or secret conspiracy ; in a word , all crimes of
a public nature , and even injuries to private persons , are supposed to be ...
In like manner treasons , which concern the safety of the kingdom , in respect of
foreign invasion , or open rebellion , or secret conspiracy ; in a word , all crimes of
a public nature , and even injuries to private persons , are supposed to be ...
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Thus has parliament * “ in this respect imposed laws upon themselves , and
without touching the prero - . gative itself they have moderated the exercise Civil
lift grant of it . A custom has for a long time prefor life . vailed , at the beginning of
...
Thus has parliament * “ in this respect imposed laws upon themselves , and
without touching the prero - . gative itself they have moderated the exercise Civil
lift grant of it . A custom has for a long time prefor life . vailed , at the beginning of
...
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Either alternative of this warmly contested dispute , may , I conceive , be safely
adopted without the Nightest abatement of that respect and submission , which
every loyal subject owes to the present form of the British constitution , Leveller ' s
...
Either alternative of this warmly contested dispute , may , I conceive , be safely
adopted without the Nightest abatement of that respect and submission , which
every loyal subject owes to the present form of the British constitution , Leveller ' s
...
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Page 484 - ... an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity.
Page 35 - For when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority...
Page 18 - A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection...
Page 148 - ... and then it is an oligarchy. Or else into the hands of one man, and then it is a monarchy; if to him and his heirs, it is...
Page 59 - Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other men's actions must, as well as their own and other men's actions, be conformable to the law of nature — ie, to the will of God, of which that is a declaration; and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good or valid against it.
Page 18 - To understand political power right and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 499 - It is a law against every law of nature, and nature herself calls for its destruction. Establish family justice and aristocracy falls. By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast.
Page 34 - MEN being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, -without his own consent.
Page 448 - It can regulate or new model the succession to the crown ; as was done in the reign of Henry VIII. and William III. It can alter the...
Page 167 - I hope are sufficient to establish the throne of our great restorer, our present king William; to make good his title in the consent of the people ; which being the only one of all lawful governments, he has more fully and clearly than any prince in Christendom ; and to justify to the world the people of England, whose love of their just and natural rights, with their resolution to preserve them, saved the nation when it was on the very brink of slavery and ruin.
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| Title | Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen, Page 732 Eighteenth century collections online HeinOnline: World constitutions illustrated Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen, Francis Plowden |
| Author | Francis Plowden |
| Publisher | E. and R. Brooke, 1792 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 620 pages |
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