 | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1839 - 570 pages
...thereof, is directly contrary to the fundamental laws and freedom of this realm, and in particular to the act, 'declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown,' at the ever memorable period of the revolution : when free election of Members of Parliament was expressly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 546 pages
...hereditary right to the crown is contested. ' It appears by the several instances mentioned in the act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown, that at the time of the revolution there was a total subversion of the constitution of government both... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 548 pages
...These were the means that brought about the revolution ; and which the act that passed soon after, declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown, intends, when his late majesty is therein called the glorious instrument of delivering the kingdom... | |
 | Protestant association - 1839 - 664 pages
...them?'" " KING AND OTEBN. " 'All this I promise to do.' "* In the following year was passed an " Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the Crown." 1 W. & M., Sess. ii., c. 2. The preamble sets forth the declaration delivered by the Lords and Commons,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 pages
...These were the means that brought about the revolution ; and which the act that passed soon after, declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crmon, intends, when his late majesty is therein called the glorious instrument of delivering the kingdom... | |
 | Joseph Gurney, Thomas Gurney - 1840 - 798 pages
...shall take effect, as the same is and stands limited." That is, by the Act of Settlement, " An Act for declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown," and another " Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties... | |
 | WILLIAM WESTBROOKE BURTON - 1840 - 914 pages
...on the assumption that, even the foundations of tin Chris. • Sut. 1 W. & M. seu. 2 c 2. An act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown. tian Religion were still to be laid, and that it rested with himself and the Secretary of State to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pages
...months afterwards confirmed by a regular act of the legislature, the statute 1 W. & M. sess. 2, c. 2, entitled " An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties...Subject, and settling the succession of the Crown," commonly called " The Bill of Rights;" which, as it forms the basis of the present fabric of our constitution,... | |
 | William Alexander - 1841 - 638 pages
...the Beign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary entituled An Act declaring the Bights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown. III. THAT the United Kingdom of Great Britain be Bepresented by one and the same Parliament to be stilod... | |
 | Robert Wodrow - 1842 - 682 pages
...my power to support, maintain, and defend the succession of the crown against him, the said James, and all other persons whatsoever, as the same is,...settling the succession of the crown to her present Majesty, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants; and as the same by another Act, entitled, An... | |
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