 | Biography - 1838 - 542 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... | |
 | Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional law - 1838 - 628 pages
...Commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that " King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself, had abdicated the government; and that... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - Government, Resistance to - 1838 - 476 pages
...have said, against a declaration on the part of a convention, that " — having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, has abdicated or forfeited the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant ?" Even they could... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...state of the nation (28th); and it was resolved, " 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 546 pages
...circumstantial.* But all this guard, and all this * " That King James the Second, having endeavored to rubvert 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... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 pages
...resolution; " that king James the c Com Journ..7 Feb. 1688. " 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 ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 476 pages
...houses of parliament met in convention, who declared, "that King James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, » See Allen's Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative, p. 48. f 7 Henry IV. e. 2.... | |
 | Law - 1840 - 946 pages
...Commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that ' King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself, had abdicated the government; and that... | |
 | William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...observe for a moment the words here used : — "That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people," (so far we have the great interests of civil liberty and the Whig principles making their appearance)... | |
 | 1840 - 1176 pages
...Commons resolve, on the 28th of January, " 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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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... 
