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" 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and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn... "
Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to ... - Page 316
by William Fordyce Mavor - 1803
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The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a ...

Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...guard, and all this accumulation of circumstances, serve to show the * " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental...
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History of the Counter-revolution in England for the Re-establishment of ...

Armand Carrel, Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1846 - 498 pages
...hours, the two following declarations were voted by the commons: — " That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 9; Volume 44

Theology - 1847 - 508 pages
...These words were abundantly vindicated many years after, when the Convention Parliament voted, — " That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert...constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original compact between king and people, and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 44

Liberalism (Religion) - 1847 - 506 pages
...These words were abundantly vindicated many years after, when the Convention Parliament voted, — " That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert...constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original compact between king and people, and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated...
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Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in ...

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

Richard Ashcraft - Philosophy - 1986 - 644 pages
...Convention 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,...
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Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party 1689-1720

J. P. Kenyon - History - 1990 - 272 pages
...resolution of the House, but they could not give it teeth. The resolution ran: That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...kingdom, by breaking the Original Contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental...
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The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact

Jonathan Irvine Israel - History - 2003 - 524 pages
...ed. Worden, introduction. 69 Trevelyan, The English Revolution, p. 146: 'That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...breaking the original contract between the King and people [a Whig remark], and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental...
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Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'

Manuel Schonhorn - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 204 pages
...Convention to resolve the remarkable happenings of the previous three months declared that James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740

Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 362 pages
...in its first wording, had raised the specter of "Jesuits and other wicked persons" advising James II "to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people."36 It was on the basis of such calumnies, admittedly moderated somewhat in the final...
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