 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...supposition of this vacancy, both houses (¿) came to this resolution : " That King James the second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...the original contract between king and people ; and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws ; and having... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - Government, Resistance to - 1838 - 476 pages
...then could these theorists have said, against a declaration on the part of a convention, that " — having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...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 George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional law - 1838 - 628 pages
...the law itself. The Lords and Commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that " King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...breaking the original contract between king and people, having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself, had abdicated the government; and that... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - Constitutional history - 1838 - 718 pages
...parUMnent then proceeded to discuss the disposition of the crown. The commons resolved,—That King James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution...of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract betwixt king and people; and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 562 pages
...commons entered on the great question of the state of the nation (28th) ; and it was resolved, "That king James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution...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
...vacancy, both houses0 came to this resolution; " that king James the c Com Journ..7 Feb. 1688. " second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...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 - 548 pages
...circumstantial.* But all this guard, and all this * " That King James the Second, having endeavored 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 fundammtel 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 476 pages
...confirmed by the voice of the two houses of parliament met in convention, who declared, "that King James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution...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.... | |
 | 1840 - 1176 pages
...lavishly bestowed on them. The Commons resolve, on the 28th of January, " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...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... 
