...I know, sir, that it is in form simplv a legislative act; but as the Act of Settlement in England, declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the Crown, has become « permanent part of the British Constitution, irrepealable by any common legislation, so...

...that it is in form simplv a legislative act; but as the Act of Settlement in Engbind, declaring tho rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the Crown, has become a permanent part of the British Constitution, irrepealable by any common legislation, so...

...I know, sir, that it is in form simply a legislative Act ; but as the Act of Settlement in England, declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the Crown, has become a permanent part of the British Constitution, irrepcalable by any common legislation; so...

...parliament reassembles, Oct. 25. Its chief business was to pass an act [1 Gul. & Mar. sess. 2, c. 2], " declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown." This celebrated statute is in effect the same as the Declaration of Rights which accompanied the tender...

...imaginable respect, and with great tenderness." "The act 1 William and Mary," remarks another contemporary, "declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown, recites the very instrument of conveyance of the crown to the Prince and Princess ; which begins in...

...of Charles I. 6 Declaration by Parliament, 13 Feb. 1689, to the Prince and Princess of Orange, 'on the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown', the basis of the Bill of Rights passed by Parliament in Oct. 1689. 7 The 1789 voting system (enfranchising...

...documents were the Petition of Rights, signed in 1626, the Agreement of the People of 1649, and An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown. The latter of these three, signed in 1689, was also known as the Bill of Rights in English history...

...and Mary accepted the throne, was 'confirmed' by being turned into the Bill of Rights, 'An Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown'. 4 Proverbs 26: 1 1: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. s In a 'royal...

...Americans the Bill of Rights of 1689 was "that second Magna Carta." 64 Its technical title was "An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown." To understand the popular title by which it has always been known and by which the standard, as well...

...it. The English Bill of Rights (1688 old calendar, 1689 current calendar) was entitled "An Act for Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown." The Whigs, influenced by John Locke, changed the terms of the debate from liberties to rights. 1 Here...