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" That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn... "
The constitution of England; or, An account of the English government - Page 170
by Jean Louis de Lolme - 1814
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Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern ..., Volume 2

William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...proper to produce only the following heterogeneous and inconsistent vote : — " That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract lietween king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the...
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Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern ..., Volume 2

William Smyth - Great Britain - 1841 - 522 pages
...debate, they thought proper to produce only the following heterogeneous and inconsistent vote : — " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to...the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and having...
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Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern ..., Volume 2

William Smyth - Great Britain - 1841 - 518 pages
...government, and that the throne was thereby vacant." We will observe for a moment the words here used : " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to...breaking the original contract between king and people," (so far we have the great interests of civil liberty and the Whig principles making their appearance),...
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Patience and Confidence the Strength of the Church: A Sermon Preached on the ...

Edward Bouverie Pusey - Bible - 1841 - 186 pages
...then could these theorists have said, against a declaration on the part of a convention, that " — having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...breaking the original contract between king and people, has abdicated or forfeited the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant ?" Even they could...
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Universal history on scriptural principles, Volume 7

Mary Bowley - 1842 - 538 pages
...voted vacant by the abdication of James ; the resolution being thus framed: " That king James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of...original contract between king and people; and having, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself...
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Memoirs of the court of England from ... 1688 to the death of ..., Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pages
...to meet the views of all parties, and which, indeed, was eventually voted by a large majority, — " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to...original contract between King and People, and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself...
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Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy Over Legal Sovereignty in ...

Corinne Comstock Weston, Janelle Renfrow Greenberg - History - 2003 - 440 pages
...for the pamphleteers when the house of commons voted on January 28, with only one dissentient voice: that King James the Second, having endeavoured to...the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having...
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Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party 1689-1720

J. P. Kenyon - History - 1990 - 272 pages
...insert it into the final resolution of the House, but they could not give it teeth. The resolution ran: That King James the Second, having endeavoured to...the Original Contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having...
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Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'

Manuel Schonhorn - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 204 pages
...met in the Convention to resolve the remarkable happenings of the previous three months declared that James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the...the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn...
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The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact

Jonathan Irvine Israel - History - 2003 - 524 pages
...Voyce from the Watch Tower, ed. Worden, introduction. 69 Trevelyan, The English Revolution, p. 146: 'That King James the Second, having endeavoured to...Kingdom, by breaking the original contract between the King and people [a Whig remark], and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated...
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