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CONSTITUTNL HIST ENG 2VL (Classics in English legal history in the modern era)
CONSTITUTNL HIST ENG 2VL - Classics in English legal history in the modern era Author:Hallam Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XIII. ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION UNDER CHARLES II. Effect of the Preu -- Restrictions upon it before and after the Restoration --... more » Licensing Ads -- Political Writings checked by the Judges -- Instances of illegal Proclamations not numerous -- Juries fined for Verdicts -- Question of their Right to return a general Verdict -- Habeas Corpus Act passed -- Difference between Lords and Commons -- Judicial Powers of the Lords historically traced -- Their Pretensions about the Time of the Resteration -- Resistance made by the Commons -- Dispute about their original Jurisdiction -- And that in Appealt from Courts of Equity -- Question of the exclusive Right of the Commons as to IHoney-bills -- Its History -- The Right extended farther -- State of the Upper House under the Tudors and Stuarts -- Augmentation of the Temporal Lords -- State of the Commons -- Increase of their Members -- Question as to nights of Election -- Four different Theories as to the original Principle -- Their Probability considered. It may seem rather an extraordinary position, after the last chapters, yet is strictly true, that the fundamental privileges of the subject were less invaded, the prerogative swerved into fewer excesses, during the reign of Charles II. than in any former period of equal length. Thanks to the patriotic energies of Selden and Eliot, of Pym and Hampden, the constitutional boundaries of royal power had been so well established that no minister was daring enough to attempt any flagrant and general violation of them. The frequent session of parliament, and its high estimation of its own privileges, furnished a security against illegal taxation. Nothing of this sort has been imputed to the government of Charles, the first...« less
ISBN-13: 9780824030704 ISBN-10: 0824030702 Publication Date: 10/1/1978 Pages:737 Edition:Facsimile of 1827 ed Rating: