 | 1868 - 574 pages
...legalized, rehearses annually the preamble "Whereas the raising or keeping a standing army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in time 'of peace,...be with the consent of Parliament, is against law." It is thus plain that the control of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army by civilians is formal and... | |
 | Mess-book - 1869 - 130 pages
...rehearses annually the preamble, " Whereas the raising or keeping a Standing Army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in time of Peace,...be with the consent of Parliament, is against Law." It is thus plain that the Control of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army by Civilians is formal and... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1869 - 1008 pages
...the "Mutiny Act" for last year — " Whereas the raising or keeping a standing army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in time of peace,...be with the consent of Parliament, is against law." Every year a sanction to breaking the law was necessary, and he contended, therefore, that it was at... | |
 | William Forsyth - Constitutional law - 1869 - 618 pages
...of Rights, 1 Will. & MB 2, c. 2, declared that the raising or keeping a standing army in the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law. Charles II. and James II. did, in fact, maintain standing armies in time of peace, but this is what... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 704 pages
...command of the army : his powers are restrained by the mutiny-act, which recites, " that a standing army in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of parliament, is against law:" but still, when there is an army in time of war or peace, the king is the supreme commander of it;... | |
 | Charles Mathew Clode - History - 1869 - 636 pages
...Mutiny Act it is expressly declared that ' the raising or keeping a standing army within this kingdom, in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is Bntthe against law.' But, sir, if the Crown can by a prero- i^^."' gative, which is not disputed, raise... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 1094 pages
...their Quarters. (4th April 1870.) WHEREAS the raising or keeping a standing army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in time of peace,...be continued for the safety of the United Kingdom, and the defence of the possessions of Her Majesty's Crown, and that the whole number of such forces... | |
 | Frederic Kidder - Boston Massacre, 1770 - 1870 - 314 pages
...of rights, in which it is declared, that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of parliament, is against law, and without the desire of the civil magistrates, to aid whom was the pretence for sending the troops hither... | |
 | Great Britain - 1871 - 674 pages
...which opens our annual Mutiny Acts : " Whereas the raising or keeping a standing army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in time of peace,...with the consent of Parliament, is against law," and the one which complements it, of the liability of all to serve in the militia when called upon to do... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - Great Britain - 1871 - 394 pages
...Mutiny Act it is expressly declared that "the raising or keeping a standing Army within this kingdom, in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law." But, Sir, if the Crown can, by a prerogative which is not disputed, raise a standing Army, and by private... | |
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WHEREAS the raising or keeping a standing army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law... 
