And in another, that a Parliament was the only way of settling peace, and bring them to his Majesty's obedience.

On the authority of the doctrine laid down in the law books; 2. Because all writs of summons abate by the king's death in parliament; 3. Because the parliament is called by a king regnant, and is his, the king regnant's, parliament, and deliberates on his business; 4. Because the parliament is a corporation, consisting of king, lords, and commons, and if one of the three be extinct, the body corporate no longer exists.

Parliament may be the rightful governors of England, but are they the rightful governors of America?" "Enough," said the captain, rising from table"We will not discuss such a question, just as we are about to separate.

But the fact that the Quebec parliament was an innovation, while the one at Newark was a simple development, had very much more.

And Parliament would become a gathering of prominent men instead of a means to prominence.

It makes a mock of public opinion by caricature, and Parliament becomes the distorting mirror of the nation.

In short nothing can be more pitiably weak than the conduct of the Presbyterian party from the first capture of Charles I. Common sense required, either a bold denial that the Church had power in ceremonies more than in doctrines, or that the Parliament was the Church, since it is the Parliament that enacts all these things;or if they admitted the authority lawful and the ceremonies only, in their mind, inexpedient, good God!

Parliament is not a congress of embassadors from different and hostile interests...but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole, where not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Parliament is the constitution; everything else is ornamental.

Parliament is not a congress of embassadors from different and hostile interests...but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole, where not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole.

The Parliament which first arrayed itself against the government of Charles was no mean foe, even if it had not resorted to arms.

" "But then, General, you are to remember that, according to Blackstone, Parliament was and is, by the English Constitution, omnipotent.

But no express law of either country contained any such stipulation respecting a Regent; and Grattan conceived that, in the absence of any pre-existing ordinance, it would be easy to contend that the Irish Parliament was the sole judge who the Regent should be, and on what terms he should exercise the royal authority.

The increasing likelihood, however, of a result which he regarded as in itself undesirable could not abate his desire to see the matter finally settled, or shake his conviction that the Provincial Parliament was the proper power to settle it.

Parliament was not sittingbut it was difficult even by opinion out of doors strongly to protest against military measures taken in a case where the authority of the Crown had been insulted, and outrage committed upon it by the Ameer of Afghanistan.

Within the city several encounters had taken place between the military and the apprentices; a free parliament had become the general cry; and the citizens exhorted each other to pay no taxes imposed by any other authority.

But in no sense, says Professor Jenks, was the British Parliament the result of a democracy; while our State legislatures during the Revolution were, indeed, democratic, and practically omnipotent, and for that very reason were promptly curbed by the State constitutions, which were adopted even before the Federal.

The parliament which he created and whose rights he defined became a standard, and his name a talisman and a challenge to succeeding generations.

What part the citizens took in the Sicilian Vespers, and how the Parliament that vainly sought a king for all Sicily was held here, and in later times the marches of the Germans, Spaniards, and Englishthese were too long a tale.

The Irish Parliament, the meetings of which had hitherto been a mere form and farce, was installed in a position of absolute independence, to grant money or to make laws, subject to no other condition than that their legislation should be of a character to entitle it to the royal assent, a condition to which every act of the British Parliament was likewise and equally liable.

The English Parliament, as you doubtless know, was the successor, or grew out of the old Witenagemot, the old Saxon Great Council, and that Great Council originallyand I am now talking of centuries before the Conquestthe Witenagemot, included in theory all the free inhabitants of the realm, just as a modern town meeting does.

He would indeed have had no logical position; both Parliaments were Constituent Assemblies; it was the duty of the one to build up a new Germany, of the other a new Prussia; their avowed object was the regeneration of their country.

The Parliament was the mere mouthpiece of Wyclif, who was now actively engaged in political life, and probably, as Dr. Lechler thinks, had a seat in Parliament.

Parliament alone is by common law the court in which the privileges of its own members can be decided.

The Parliament was a small and irregular body of barons and knights of the shires, with a few burgesses, unwillingly summoned from the towns, and a certain number of bishops and abbots, the latter, owing to the disturbed state of the country, being generally represented by their proctors.