| Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1816 - 602 pages
...the law itself. .Ihe lords and commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that " king " James the Second, having endeavoured to '•' subvert the constitution...original contract between king " and people, and having violated the funda " mental laws, and withdrawn himself, had ab" dicated the government; and that the... | |
| Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield - Administrative and political divisions - 1816 - 544 pages
...they passed, by a considerable majority, the following memorable vote, " That King James the " Second having endeavoured to subvert the " constitution of...kingdom, by breaking the " original contract between the king and people, " and having, by the advice of the Jesuits and " other wicked persons, violated... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 910 pages
...convention on occisión of this vacancy, both houses came to this resolution : " That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the origin.nl contract between king and people; and, by the »(¡vice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons,... | |
| John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 522 pages
...no right to the crown ; and- was departing from the great whig principle, that a king who endeavours to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between the king and people, and violating the fundamental laws, is deemed to have forfeited the crown ; which... | |
| John Moore - 1820 - 532 pages
...no right to the crown ; and was departing from the great whig principle, that a king who endeavours to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between the king and people, and violating the fundamental laws, is deemed to have forfeited the crown ; which... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 444 pages
...the law itself. The lords and commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that " king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...original contract between king and people, and having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself, had abdicated the government ; and that the throne... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...if.it had any fault, rather too guarded, and too circumstantial.* But • " That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and -other wicked persons, having violated 'he fundamental laws, and having... | |
| 1821 - 318 pages
...regency ; at length the Commons passed by a great majority, the vote of abdications, *' That King James having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...Kingdom, by breaking the original contract between are ready to return (when safely we can) and to redress all the disorders of our kingdoms, in a free... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...representative, immediately or by consequence affecting this colony. The first f«ct is, the hiving endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract. The violation of the fundamental laws is the second fact; and in support of these two charges, the... | |
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