 | Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1853 - 416 pages
...; and having received afterwards the royal assent, beeamo an act of parliament, under the title of An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown.—Ann. 1, William and Mary, Sess. 2, cap. 2. It was at this sera that the principles of civil... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1853 - 200 pages
...cannot conceive that any person can do otherwise than recognise it as a fact that the Acts of 1089 — " declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown," and of 1700 — " for the further limitation of the Crown, and Letter tscuring the rights and liberties... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 366 pages
...Convention Parliament, I will at once transcribe this most important of all modern statutes. AN ACT FOB DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN. Whereas the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully, and... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1853 - 364 pages
...Convention Parliament, I will at once transcribe this most important of all modern statutes. AN ACT FOB DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CKOWN. Whereas the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully,... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Democracy - 1853 - 842 pages
...BILL OF RIGHTS, PASSED 1 WILLIAM AND MARY, SESS. . 2, CH. 2, 1689. AS ACT FOB DECLARING THE EIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN. 1 W. & M. 1689. WHEREAS the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, assembled at Westminster, lawfully,... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - Fiction - 1984 - 280 pages
...of Charles I. 6 Declaration by Parliament, 13 Feb. 1689, to the Prince and Princess of Orange, 'on the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown', the basis of the Bill of Rights passed by Parliament in Oct. 1689. 7 The 1789 voting system (enfranchising... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1987 - 568 pages
...and Mary accepted the throne, was 'confirmed' by being turned into the Bill of Rights, 'An Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown'. 4 Proverbs 26: 1 1: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. s In a 'royal... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - History - 1992 - 322 pages
...eighteenth-century Americans the Bill of Rights of 1689 was "that second Magna Carta." 64 Its technical title was "An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown." To understand the popular title by which it has always been known and by which the standard, as well... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - Civil rights - 1993 - 244 pages
...it. The English Bill of Rights (1688 old calendar, 1689 current calendar) was entitled "An Act for Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown." The Whigs, influenced by John Locke, changed the terms of the debate from liberties to rights. 1 Here... | |
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