You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity... The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany - Side 2911790Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| J. G. A. Pocock - 1989 - 304 sider
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted by us to our posterity; as an estate especially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any...whatever to any other more general or prior right. He goes on to say that this practice is "the happy result of following nature, which is wisdom without... | |
| A. J. Ayer - 1990 - 210 sider
...109. 3 ibid., p. 1 1 8. forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown;... | |
| John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 398 sider
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown;... | |
| Bernard Semmel - 1994 - 177 sider
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity—as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...whatever to any other more general or prior right." Thus England had "an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage, and a House of Commons and a people... | |
| Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - 1996 - 356 sider
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity: as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We 1 94 have an inheritable crown;... | |
| David Wootton - 1996 - 964 sider
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity — as an estate specially ! constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 sider
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown,... | |
| Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 sider
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown;... | |
| Uday Singh Mehta - 1999 - 250 sider
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate especially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown;... | |
| Brian Orend - 2002 - 282 sider
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any...other more general or prior right. By this means our constitution preserves unity in so great diversity of its parts.17 New-fangled rights that defy historical... | |
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