 | Law - 1840 - 946 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the constitution of...breaking the original contract between king and people, having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself, had abdicated the government; and that... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1840 - 576 pages
...question of the state of the nation, (2Sth;) and it was resolved, " That king James II., 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 fundamental laws, and having... | |
 | William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...thought proper to produce only the following heterogeneous and inconsistent vote : — " That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract lietween king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the... | |
 | William Smyth - Great Britain - 1841 - 518 pages
...produce only the following heterogeneous and inconsistent vote : — " 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... | |
 | William Smyth - Great Britain - 1841 - 522 pages
...was thereby vacant." We will observe for a moment the words here used : " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...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),... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - Bible - 1841 - 186 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... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Great Britain - 1843 - 348 pages
...; which received f',e concurrence of »h<' peers: "That, king James the second, having endeavcured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking...between king and people ; and having, by the advice of wicked counsellors, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1843 - 642 pages
...pact in the resolution of the Lords and Commons in 1688, which declared that " King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of...kingdom, by breaking the original contract between the king and people, and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1843 - 642 pages
...pact in the resolution of the Lords and Commons in 1688, which declared that " King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of...kingdom, by breaking the original contract between the king and people, and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental... | |
 | P A. Beddome - History - 1844 - 280 pages
...succession ? DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. 197 Yes, in the following assertion, " The king, James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...breaking the original contract between king and people," &c. 858. Name the most important discovery of the fifteenth century. The discovery of the new world,... | |
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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... 
