 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1809 - 860 pages
...disposing of the government, for he acts as a private man, he ought to act from his laws. When he acts by his will, and not by the laws, he is no king ;...' that the king has his crown by divine right/ and we (the people) have divine right too; but he can forfeit, if he break that pact and cove- . nant with... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
...power to make it (the government) from a sacceasive monarchy an elective." Sir Robert Howard — " I have heard that the King has his crown by divine right, and we the people have divine right ton ! But he can forfeit it if he break that pact and covenant with... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - Great Britain - 1908 - 512 pages
...Robert Howard no doubt expressed the thoughts of the great majority of his audience when he said, ' I have heard that the King has his crown by divine right ; but we, the people, have a divine right too. The government was grounded upon a compact with the... | |
 | Reginald Leslie Hine - Hitchin (England) - 1927 - 456 pages
...culprits out of the church by the ear in the middle of the sermon (343). THE CIVIL WAR AND COMMONWEALTH (i) ' / have heard that the King has his crown by divine right, but toe the people have a divine right too.' — SIR ROBERT HOWARD, sometime Steward of Hitchin Manor,... | |
 | Reginald Leslie Hine - Hitchin (England) - 1927 - 466 pages
...culprits out of the church by the ear in the middle of the sermon (343). THE CIVIL WAR AND COMMONWEALTH (i) ' / have heard that the King has his crown by divine right, but we the people have a divine right too.' — SIR ROBERT HOWARD, sometime Steward of Hitchin Manor,... | |
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that the king has his crown by divine right/ and we (the people) have divine right too; but he can forfeit, if he break that pact and... 