Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law. "
The Standard Library Cyclopedia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical ... - Page 192
1848
Full view - About this book

Correspondence of William Pitt, Volume 4

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1840 - 628 pages
...assembled that the Declaration of Right, at the ever glorious Revolution, namely, " That the raising and keeping a standing army within the kingdom, in time of peace, unless it be by the consent of parliament, is against law," having reference only to the consent of the parliament...
Full view - About this book

Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Volume 4

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1840 - 626 pages
...assembled that the Declaration of Right, at the ever glorious Revolution, namely, " That the raising and keeping a standing army within the kingdom, in time of peace, unless it be by the consent of parliament, is against law," having reference only to the consent of the parliament...
Full view - About this book

The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People ..., Volume 6

George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 pages
...subjects to petition the king ; and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. 6. That the raising or keeping a standing army within...it be with consent of parliament, is against law. 7. That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions,...
Full view - About this book

The English Constitution: A Popular Commentary on the Constitutional Law of ...

George Bowyer - Constitutional law - 1841 - 742 pages
...constitution, that it is declared in one of the articles of the bill of rights,1 that the raising or keeping up a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of parliament, is against law. And the army is ipso facto disbanded at the expiration of...
Full view - About this book

American Criminal Trials, Volume 1

Peleg Whitman Chandler - Law - 1841 - 462 pages
...present sovereign lord the king now has it. Indeed the bill of rights declares among other things, that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in a time of peace, unless with the consent of parliament, is against law. And it is said, that upon the...
Full view - About this book

The Portfolio, Volume 2

David Urquhart - Great Britain - 1843 - 644 pages
...Colleagues for their Departure from the Letter oftheBill of Rights; which declared, "that the Rais" ing or Keeping a Standing Army, within the Kingdom, in...be with Consent of Parliament, " is against Law." But he positively refused to receive into the Preamble any Admission of the Illegality of the Measure....
Full view - About this book

Containing modern history, to the outbreak of the French Revolution

Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...the jealousy of the nation, increased his guards to 80,000. In the bill of rights of William III., it was declared that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless with consent of parliament, is against law ; nevertheless a force, varying in its numbers, has ever...
Full view - About this book

Remarks on the Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial: With a Summary ...

Thomas Frederick Simmons - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1843 - 678 pages
...that clause from the bill of rights, which declares, that the keeping up a standing army within this kingdom, in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law ; yet, in these reigns the mutiny act pr»ctiw during ^ ' * • • reigns mibsewas repeatedly suffered...
Full view - About this book

A Manual of Dignities, Privilege, and Precedence: Including Lists of the ...

Charles Roger Dod - Great Britain - 1843 - 696 pages
...the Revolution, soldiers were embodied under the authority of the Crown only, but the Bill of Rights declared that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom during peace is contrary to law, unless it be upheld by the consent of Parliament. This abridgment...
Full view - About this book

The Portfolio; Or, a Collection of State Papers, Etc: Illustrative ..., Volume 2

David Urquhart - Europe - 1844 - 644 pages
...their Departure from the Letter oftheBill of Rights; which declared, "that the Rais" ing orKeeping a Standing Army, within the Kingdom, in " Time of...be with Consent of Parliament, " is against Law." But he positively refused to receive into the Preamble any Admission of the Illegality of the Measure....
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF