 I know that prerogative is a part of the law ; but " sovereign power" is no parliamentary word. In my opinion, it weakens Magna Charta and all the statutes, for they are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power. And should we now add it, we shall...  The Eclectic Review - Página 390editado por - 1833Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1864 - 350 páginas
...celebrated speech against inserting the words " sovereign power" in the prerogative of the throne, " Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign." So say we of our Constitution. It is the master of the President and of Congress. By it we mean one... | |
 | 1865 - 1120 páginas
...word. In my opinion it weakens Maijnn Charta and all our Statutes : for they are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power ; and, shall we now add...foundation of Law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what we yield unto. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign. If we... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1873 - 568 páginas
...weaken the foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what we yield unto. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign."* But the Constitution is our Magna Charta, which can 1 Yates's Minutes, June 29, 1787 : Elliot's Debates... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 510 páginas
...must fall. Let them hold their privileges according to the law, and take heed what they yielded to. ' Magna ' Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.' In all that carried conviction and warning, the speech of Selden was not less supreme. With his prodigious... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1873 - 562 páginas
...word. In my opinion, it weakens Magna Charta and all our statutes ; for they are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power ; and shall we now add it,...foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what we yield unto. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he icill have no sovereign." *... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 566 páginas
...word. In my opinion, it weakens Magna Charta and all our statutes ; for thcv are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power ; and shall we now add it,...foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what we yield unto. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he trifl have no sovereign."* But... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - 480 páginas
...declaration of our liberties; for they are absolute without any saving of 'sovereign power.' Should we now add it, we shall weaken the foundation of law, and then the building must fall. If we grant this, by implication we give a ' sovereign power' above all laws. ' Power' in law... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 páginas
...weaken the foundations of law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what we yield unto : Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no " sovereign." I wonder this '' sovereign " was not in Magna Charta, or in the confirmations of it. If we grant this,... | |
 | 1875 - 842 páginas
...tersely said by Sir EDWARD COKE, during the dehate in the House of Commons on the petition of right, " Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." The very essence of the 29ih chapter of the charter is. among other immunities from oppression, incorporated... | |
 | 1875 - 788 páginas
...tersely said by Sir Edward Coke, during the debate in the House of Commons on the petition of right, " Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." The very essence of the 29th chapter of the charter is, among other immunities from oppression, incorporated... | |
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