| Bruce Smith - History - 2006 - 461 pages
...election of members of parliament1 ought to be free; that the freedom of speech, or of debates, or of proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.72 The Declaration was, some months afterwards, conformed by a regular act... | |
| Jeff Broadwater - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 352 pages
...position in the 1787 Constitutional Convention.17 Mason may have written the terse eleventh article, "excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted," which reappeared almost verbatim in the federal Bill of Rights.... | |
| Micheline Ishay - Law - 2007 - 590 pages
...are Protestants may have arms for their defense suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by law. 8 . That election of members of parliament ought to...not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 11. That jurors ought to be duly impaneled and returned, and... | |
| Tom Lansford - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2008 - 150 pages
...to their conditions and as allowed by law; That election of members of Parliament ought to be free; That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings...questioned in any court or place out of Parliament; That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments... | |
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