 | Thomas Erskine May - Legislative bodies - 1844 - 514 pages
...errors can only be corrected by itself. To adopt the words of Sir Edward Coke, the power of Parliament " is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be...either for causes or persons, within any bounds." 1 This being the authority of Parliament collectively, the laws and usage of the constitution have... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 564 pages
...certainly above all precedent laws, entailed the crown on whom it pleased ; and as a great lawyer saith, " is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be...either for causes or persons, within any bounds." But your cry is, no parliament without a king. If this be so, we have never had lawful kings, who have... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1845 - 806 pages
...xvii.) I can scarcely understand. " The power of Parliament," says Lord Coke, " is to transcendant and absolute that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds ;" and I would humbly suggest that if it can dissolve marriages, and, therefore, make bastards— effect denizations... | |
 | Political dictionary - 1846 - 976 pages
...hereditary succession to the throne. To conclude,' in the words of Sir Edward Coke, the power of parliament "is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be...either for causes or persons, within any bounds." 2. Distribution of Powers between ffinj, Lord», and Commons.- — Custom and convenience have assigned... | |
 | George Crosby - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1847 - 424 pages
...should be called every three years. " The power and jurisdiction of Parliament," says Sir Edward Coke, " is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be...confined either for causes or persons, within any bounds. It hath sovereign and uncontroulable authority in making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating,... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...six hundred and fifty-eight (d). Power of Parliament. — The power and jurisdiction of Parliament is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be...confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds. It hath sovereign and uncontrolable authority in making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating,... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...certainly above all precedent laws, entailed the crown on whom it pleased ; and, as a great lawyer saith^ " is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be...either for causes or persons, within any bounds." But your cry is, No parliament without a king. If this be so, we have never had lawful kings, who have... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1848 - 916 pages
...parliament, says Sir Edward Coke (A Inst. 36), is so transcendant and absolute, that it cannot be con6ued, either for causes or persons within any bounds. And of this high court, he adds, may be truly said, ' Si antiquitatem spectes, est vetustissima ; si dignitatem, est honoratissima ;... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 1084 pages
...time being of the said company, &c. VOL. III. — C, B. 3 o 1847. so transcendent and absolute, as it cannot be confined» either for causes or persons, within any bounds." (a) Here, in addition to the positive declaration of an act of parliament, the defendant is stated... | |
 | Political science - 1849 - 480 pages
...hereditary succession to the throne. To conclude, in the words of Sir Edward Coke, the power of parliament "is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be...either for causes or persons, within any bounds." 2. Distribution of Powers between King, Lords, and Commons. — Custom and convenience have assigned... | |
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It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations... 
