 | William Pitt - Great Britain - 1808 - 460 pages
...respects a standing army. According to the bill of rights, I have always understood that to keep up a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of parliament, is contrary to law. This I conceive to be the principle of that bill. But how do I violate it by proposing to maintain... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1816 - 632 pages
...that every one who understood the constitution of England, knew that it was contrary to law to keep up a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of parliament. That was true. But all who knew what had taken place in parliament for the last hundred years, must... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 532 pages
...preamble to the annual mutiny bill, which some people considered as bombastic, expressly stated, that a standing army, in time of peace, without the consent of parliament, was against law. If magistrates neglected to call in the military when their assistance was necessary,... | |
 | William Pitt - 1817 - 458 pages
...respects a standing army. According to the bill of rights, I have always understood that to keep up a standing army in time of peace. without the consent of parliament, is contrary to law. This I conceive to be the principle of that bill. But how do I violate it by proposing to maintain... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1817 - 800 pages
...preamble to th'e annual mutiny bill, which some people considered as bombastic, expressly stated,, that a standing army, in time of peace, without the consent of parliament, was against law. If magistrates neglected to call in the military when their assistance was necessary,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1829 - 1008 pages
...was illegal —that to levy money without consent of parliament was illegal sive — that to maintain a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of parliament, was illegal — that the right of petition, and others therein enumerated, were the undoubted right... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...declaration in the memorable Bill of Rights, (1689,) which sets forth " that the raising and keeping a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, ^ contrary to law." The wars in which the country was subsequently engaged, caused a large augmentation... | |
 | 1835 - 284 pages
...declaration in the memorable Hill of Riyhts, (1689,) which sets forth " that the raising and keeping a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, is contrary to law." The wars in which the country was subsequently engaged, caused a large augmentation to be made in the military... | |
 | Law - 1835 - 510 pages
...Rights" framed by the two houses, and solemnly assented to by the new sovereign, it was expressly stated that, " the raising and keeping of a standing army in time of peace, without consent of parliament, is contrary to law." It became therefore necessary to provide for this consent... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1846 - 638 pages
...Arthur Pigott (Attorney-General) told the author that Burrowes's speech was unanswerable. has declared a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, contrary to law ; has established the independence of the Judges of the land; has cherished, has secured,... | |
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Army. The maintenance of a standing army, in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, is prohibited by the Bill of Rights of 1690. 
