| Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 806 Seiten
...various changes of the succession to the crown, it has been the uniform policy of our legislators, to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance...forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity. By this means, our constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an... | |
| Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 810 Seiten
...various changes of the succession to the crown, it has been the uniform policy of our legislators, to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmilted to our posterity. By this means, our constitution preserves a unity hi so great a diversity... | |
| John Singleton Copley (1st baron Lyndhurst.) - 1839 - 150 Seiten
...Englishmen, and as a Patrimony derived from their Forefathers." —Pp. 45 and 46. " You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the declaration of Right,...to be transmitted to our Posterity ; as an Estate especially belonging to the People of this Kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 Seiten
...true jmcient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom." You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right,...constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an cntaib'd inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as... | |
| John Centlivres Chase - 1843 - 376 Seiten
...from our forefathers to be transmitted to our posterity, an estate specially belonging to the people, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation... | |
| Hugh A. Garland - 1850 - 336 Seiten
...the declaration of rights. He calls it an entailed inheritance, derived to us (the people of England) from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our...specially belonging to the people of this kingdom — an inheritable crown — an inheritable peerage ; and a House of Commons, and a people inheriting... | |
| Hugh A. Garland - 1851 - 352 Seiten
...the declaration of rights. He calls it an entailed inheritance, derived to us (the people of England) from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging-to the people of this kingdom—an inheritable crown—an inheritable peerage ; and a House... | |
| 1852 - 532 Seiten
...of the people. This is the case especially in England, where, as has been declared by Mr. Burke, '' It has been the uniform policy of our constitution...forefathers and to be transmitted to our posterity :" — " This policy (he adds) appears to me to be the result of profound reflection, or rather the... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 Seiten
...prejudice, his duty bccontts a part of his nature. THEORY OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION-. Yon will observe that, from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right,...to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritanre derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, as an estate... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 Seiten
...ANTIQUITY. — (" REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.") From Magna Charta to the Declaration of Eight, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution...and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance delivered to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially... | |
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