The Moderate Monarchy, Or Principles of the British Constitution, Described in a Narrative of the Life and Maxims of Alfred the Great and His Counsellors. From the German of Albert V. HallerLongman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1849 - 344 pages |
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... Judges and their privation of Property , 300. - 115 . Prerogative of the King , ib . - 116 . Opening and Dissolving of Parliament by the King , 301. - 117 . Degrees of Nobility in England , ib . 118. Ecclesiastical Power in the British ...
... Judges and their privation of Property , 300. - 115 . Prerogative of the King , ib . - 116 . Opening and Dissolving of Parliament by the King , 301. - 117 . Degrees of Nobility in England , ib . 118. Ecclesiastical Power in the British ...
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... judge him ; the defendant could not expect any injustice from them whose judge he himself might be , and whose security ... judges . This prerogative still exists , and till the end of the last century , no other nation had adopted the ...
... judge him ; the defendant could not expect any injustice from them whose judge he himself might be , and whose security ... judges . This prerogative still exists , and till the end of the last century , no other nation had adopted the ...
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... judges , and pay the king an adjudged fine . Persons who were suspected of a crime were obliged to give bail by others , or be taken into custody . The Northern pirates had given so many exam- ples of open violence , that robbing , and ...
... judges , and pay the king an adjudged fine . Persons who were suspected of a crime were obliged to give bail by others , or be taken into custody . The Northern pirates had given so many exam- ples of open violence , that robbing , and ...
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... judge when summoned . Nobody could obtain the protection of the law without being registered in one of the tithings ; all that would not undergo this obligation were expelled that protection , and could be attacked with impunity by any ...
... judge when summoned . Nobody could obtain the protection of the law without being registered in one of the tithings ; all that would not undergo this obligation were expelled that protection , and could be attacked with impunity by any ...
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... judge in every county , before whom all judicial cases were brought and settled . Those judges moderated the power of the burgraves as well as that of the earls.29 The effect of these regulations was miraculous . Shortly before that ...
... judge in every county , before whom all judicial cases were brought and settled . Those judges moderated the power of the burgraves as well as that of the earls.29 The effect of these regulations was miraculous . Shortly before that ...
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Page 279 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Page 280 - Have they never heard of a monarchy directed by laws, controlled and balanced by the great hereditary wealth and hereditary dignity of a nation, and both again controlled by a judicious check from the reason and feeling of the people at large, acting by a suitable and permanent organ?
Page 311 - 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 286 - ... Though the legislative, whether placed in one or more, whether it be always in being, or only by intervals, though it be the supreme power in every commonwealth; yet first, it is not, nor can possibly be absolutely arbitrary over the lives and fortunes of the people: for it being but the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person, or assembly, which is legislator; it can be no more than those persons had in a state of nature before they entered into society, and gave up...
Page 341 - Children, I confess, are not born in this full state of equality, though they are born to it. Their parents have a sort of rule and jurisdiction over them when they come into the world, and for some time after, but it is but a temporary one.
Page 287 - Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to' the public good of the society. It is a power, that hath no other end but preservation, and therefore can never * have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects.
Page 287 - Secondly, the legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice and decide the rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws, and known authorised judges.
Page 341 - Thus, the grass my horse has bit, the turfs my servant has cut, and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property without the assignation or consent of anybody. 'The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.
Page 292 - When a king has dethroned himself, and put himself in a state of war with his people, what shall hinder them from prosecuting him who is no king, as they would any other man, who has put himself into a state of war with them, Barclay, and those of his opinion, would do well to tell us.