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" second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn... "
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Page 16
1833
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 530 pages
...nation," he strongly supported the resolution that " King James II. , having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and. by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having...
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The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...unquestionable laws and liberties : they charged 6 " That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 552 pages
...which gave general satisfaction. It was moved that King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having...
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The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, Philosophers ..., Volume 2

Biography - 1853 - 530 pages
...declared vacant by the following vote : — " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people ; and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and...
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 1-2

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 1034 pages
...resolution of both Houses, in 1688, that 'King James II. having endeavoured to subvert the conBtitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and having...
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History of England, by Hume and Smollett; with a continuation by T ..., Volume 6

David Hume - 1854 - 600 pages
...concurrence : it was contained in these words : — ' that king James II. having endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and...
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Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in ...

Corinne Comstock Weston, Janelle Renfrow Greenberg - History - 2003 - 440 pages
...January 28, with only one dissentient voice: that King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and...
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Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government

Richard Ashcraft - Philosophy - 1986 - 644 pages
...represented a compromise, reflecting both positions: King James the Second, having endeavored to subvert the Constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people; and . . . having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, hath abdicated...
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Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party 1689-1720

J. P. Kenyon - History - 1990 - 272 pages
...could not give it teeth. The resolution ran: That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the Original Contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having...
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Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'

Manuel Schonhorn - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 204 pages
...happenings of the previous three months declared that James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws and having...
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