Because we are persuaded that a sole, or even a first minister, is an officer unknown to the law of Britain, inconsistent with the Constitution of this country, and destructive of liberty in any Government whatsoever... The Commonwealth at War - Страница 162написао/ла Albert Frederick Pollard - 1917 - 256 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
| 1897 - 666 страница
...motion had been rejected in the Lords, a protest was recorded, which declared that "we are persuaded that a sole, or even a First, Minister, is an officer...destructive of liberty in any Government whatsoever; and it plainly appearing to us that Sir Robert Walpole has, for many years, acted as such, by taking... | |
| 1897 - 1138 страница
...motion had been rejected in the Lords, a protest was recorded, which declared that "we are persuaded that a sole, or even a First, Minister, is an officer...destructive of liberty in any Government whatsoever; and it plainly appearing to us that Sir Robert Walpole has, for many years, acted as such, by faking... | |
| Alpheus Todd - 1869 - 838 страница
...was afterwards entered on the journals, signed by thirty-one peers, who declared their conviction ' that a sole, or even a first minister, is an officer...destructive of liberty in any government whatsoever ; ' and that ' it plainly appearing to us that Sir Robert Walpole has for many years acted as such,... | |
| 1894 - 922 страница
...treasury. In 1741 a number of peers drew up a protest against the government of Walpole on the ground that " a sole or even a first minister is an officer unknown to the law of Great Britain, and inconsistent with the Constitution," and that Sir R. Walpole had " for many years... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1875 - 596 страница
...The rejection of Lord Carteret's motion led to the following protest. 1st, Because we are persuaded that a sole, or even a first minister, is an officer...destructive of liberty in any Government whatsoever ; and it plainly appearing to us, that Sir Robert Walpole has, for many years, acted as such, by taking... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 512 страница
...xi. 1056-7. In the Protest against the rejection of the motion it was stated : — ' We are persuaded that a sole, or even a first minister, is an officer unknown to the law of Britain,' &c. Ib. p. 1215. Johnson reports the Chancellor as saying : — ' It has not been yet pretended that... | |
| John Morley - 1889 - 272 страница
...minority in the Lords drew up a protest, and the opening clause in it runs thus : " We are persuaded that a sole, or even a First Minister, is an officer...destructive of liberty in any government whatsoever." In Walpole's defence, neither he, nor any of those who spoke for him, contradicted this principle;... | |
| Albany De Fonblanque - 1889 - 242 страница
...sensitiveness was not unconnected with the " protest " which appears in the journals of the House of Lords, that "a sole or even a First Minister is an officer...of Britain, inconsistent with the constitution of the country, and destructive of liberty in any Government whatsoever." Nowadays, notwithstanding the... | |
| Hannis Taylor - 1898 - 714 страница
...protest entered on the journals by thirty-one peers, who declared that as " a sole, or even a first a first minister, is an officer unknown to the law...inconsistent with the constitution of this country, and destruc- * tive of liberty in any government whatsoever ; " and that " it known to plainly appearing... | |
| Sir William Reynell Anson - 1892 - 544 страница
...when asked to join Lord rejection of the motion to remove Sir R. Walpole. ' Because we are persuaded that a sole or even a first Minister is an officer...country and destructive of liberty in any government whatever.' 1 Coxe, Memoirs of H. Pelham, i. 289. 1 Stapylton, Canning, 203-208. Shelbnrne's Ministry... | |
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