 | Josef Redlich - Parliamentary practice - 1903 - 352 pages
...position claimed by the Commons in this respect was clearly fixed. In 1671 they passed a solemn resolution "that in all aids given to the King by the Commons the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords." 3 And a second resolution, passed on the 3rd of July... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1906 - 1068 pages
...p™ 5 86. S ° upon the subjects of the Crown, advanced this claim still further by resolving, 1671, "That in all aids given to the king by the Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords; " and, by a second resolution, 3rd July, 1678, " That... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - Great Britain - 1907 - 280 pages
...white sugar from one penny to five-eights of a penny on the pound, the Commons passed a resolution that : — " In all aids given to the King by the Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords." At a conference with the Lords they declared that the... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Great Britain - 1908 - 600 pages
...authority can be stated with precision is that of finance. As far back as 1671 the Commons resolved "That, in all aids given to the King, by the Commons, the Rate or Tax ought not to be altered by the Lords" ; l and in 1678 they adopted another resolution that all... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1902 - 882 pages
...Resolution of the other House which now regulates this matter was passed in 1671, and is as follows — "That in all aids given to the King by the Commons the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords," and there is a second Resolution dated July 3rd, 1678,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1909 - 710 pages
...[one] halfpenny [and] half [a] farthing, was read the second time and debated ; Resolved, etc., neni. con. That in all aids given to the King by the Commons the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords.' (9 CJ 235.) This is the first of these important Resolutions.... | |
 | United States - 1909 - 1110 pages
...the Commons, on the one hand, maintain the position which the Commons enunciated as far back as 1671, that "in all aids given to the King, by the Commons, the Rate or Tax ought not to be altered by the Lords." As President Lowell says in his work on "The Government... | |
 | Liberal Publication Department (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1910 - 552 pages
...exercise. See No. (2) for an explanation :f »hat is meant. 1678. The Resolution of 1671 affirmed— " That in all aids given to the King by the Commons,...rate of tax ought not to be altered by the Lords." The Resolution of 1678 asserted — " That all aids and supplies to His Majesty in Parliament are the... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Legislative bodies - 1910 - 332 pages
...resolutions which are the loci classici of the constitutional lawyer. By that of 1671 the Commons affirmed that ' in all aids given to the King by the Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords '.1 That of 1678 asserted, ' That all aids and supplies,... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Administrative law - 1910 - 484 pages
...House of Commons, proceedings which evoked two famous resolutions. By that of 1671 the Commons affirmed that ' in all aids given to the King by the Commons the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords ' ; 3 by that of 1678, ' That all aids and supplies, and... | |
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