| Daniel Defoe - English literature - 1703 - 500 pages
...the Rights of the People, declar'd by the Commons of England. Thefe are the Words, That the rai/ing and keeping a Standing Army within the Kingdom in time of Peace (unlefs it be by confent of Parliament) is unlawful. This was once urged to thefe Gentlemen before,... | |
| Thomas Hutchinson - Massachusetts - 1828 - 568 pages
...liberties of the country. The bill of rights, passed immediately after the revolution, expressly declares, that " the raising and keeping a standing army within the kingdom in a time of peace, without the consent of parliament, is against law :" and we take this occasion to... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1820 - 694 pages
...subjects to petition the King ; and all commitments, and prosecutions for the same, are illegal. 6. That the raising, and keeping a standing army within the kingdom, in time of peace, is against law. 7- That Protestant subjects may bear arms for their defence, suitable to their condition,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1802 - 502 pages
...ancient rights and liberties do declare," several particulars, and amongst the rest, " that raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom, in time of peace, unless with consent of Parliament, is against law," and they P claim and insist upon all the premises as their... | |
| Constitutional law - 1802 - 344 pages
...dangerous an authority, it became an article of the bill of rights then framed, that " raising or " keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of " peace, unless .with the consent of parliament, was against "law." In that kingdom, when the pulse of liberty was... | |
| William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...subject to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitiqnjng are illegal. That the raising and keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time. of peace, un}ess jj be by consent ef parliament, is against law. 4 584 APPENDIX. That the subjects being protestants,... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...thas t esp. K. republic. M*L Dbrr. MM. undv. 33. articles of the bill of rights v, that the raising or keeping a standing army -within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law. BUT, as the fashion of keeping standing armies (which was... | |
| Great Britain - 1807 - 542 pages
...mitments and Prosecutions for such peti" tioning-are illegal. '< VI. That the raising or keeping * " Standing Army within the Kingdom in " time of Peace, unless it be with consent of " Parliament is against law. " VII. That the Subjects which are «' Protestants, may... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...King, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning, are illegal ; that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law , that the subjects which are pfotestants may have arms*... | |
| John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...declared by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled,...within the kingdom, in time of peace, unless it be by the consent of Parliament, is against law," having reference only to the consent of the Parliament... | |
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