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Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham ... - Page 275
by John Almon - 1810
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On Civil Liberty and Self-government, Volume 1

Francis Lieber - Civil rights - 1853 - 588 pages
...Second " did endeavor to subvert and extirpate" ..." the laws and liberties of this kingdom," his " raising and keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, without consent of parliament, arid quartering soldiers contrary to law." It is, in England, therefore,...
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The Military Encyclopaedia: A Technical, Biographical, and Historical ...

Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - Military art and science - 1853 - 388 pages
...was looked on with great jealousy. In the Bill of Kights (1689) it was declared that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless with consent of parliament, was against law. A standing army lias ever since been maintained. It is...
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The Rise and Progress of The English COnstitiution

E. S. Creasy - 1854 - 468 pages
...King, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.* 6. That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it he with consent of Parliament, is against law.f 7. That the subjects which are Protestants, may have...
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A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire ..., Volume 2

John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1854 - 846 pages
...immediately provided against ; and it was consequently declared in the Bill of Rights, that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless with consent of parliament, is contrary to law. And from this epoch down to tlie present day, the army...
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New Commentaries on the Laws of England: (partly Founded on Blackstone)

Henry John Stephen - Law - 1858 - 718 pages
...king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. 6. 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. 7. That the subjects which are protestants may have arms...
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Popular History of England, Volume 4

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1858 - 556 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 Protestants, may have arms...
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A Treatise on the Right of Personal Liberty: And on the Writ of ..., Volume 961

Rollin Carlos Hurd - Extradition - 1858 - 714 pages
...King, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. " 6. 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. " 7. That the subjects which are Protestants, may have...
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A Manual of the English Constitution: With a Review of Its Rise, Growth, and ...

David Rowland - Constitutional history - 1859 - 606 pages
...king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. " 6. 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. " 7. That the subjects which are protestants, rany have...
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On Taxation: How it is Raised and how it is Expended

Leone Levi - Finance, Public - 1860 - 282 pages
...privilege, was abhorrent to the English mind. The Bill of Rights expressly declared that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom, in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law ; and for a long time no army of any importance was...
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Books 1 & 2

William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...his own civil list ; it was made one of the articles of the bill of rights, (y) 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...
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