 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1846 - 632 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,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1854 - 846 pages
...corrected in parliament. In this list the estates denounced the committee of articles ; the keeping up of a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of parliament ; the act of supremacy, the manner and measure of the popular representation, &c. In consequence of... | |
 | Henry William Byerley Thomson - Great Britain - 1855 - 464 pages
...era when the Military Law assumed a regular and permanent form. By the Declaration of Rights, it was settled in positive terms, " that the raising and...keeping of a standing army in time of peace, without consent of Parliament, is contrary to law." This, with the declaration " that the subjects, if protestants,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1857 - 576 pages
...legalized, as a matter of course, by bills of indemnity. Fifth, the charge was, that the king had kept up a standing army in time of peace without the consent of parliament. We have already alluded to this as rendered necessary by the Monmouth rebellion, the spirit of insubordination,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1859 - 430 pages
...Eights," wherein it was declared illegal for the sovereign to repeal laws, levy taxes, or maintain a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament. Many other stipulations were made, to all which, the new king and queeii having assented, were immediately... | |
 | sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1859 - 408 pages
...franchise — she repealed the perpetual Mutiny Bill, and placed on record the immortal resolve, that a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, was contrary to law — in itself a charter of liberty. All these splendid acquisitions she obtained... | |
 | Henry Lee Scott - History - 1861 - 674 pages
...it now exists. The only allusions to the military power of the Crown, in the Bill of Rights, are, " that the raising and keeping of a standing army in time of peace, without consent of parliament, is contrary to law ; " and that " subjects, if Protestants, may have arms for... | |
 | Tatlow Jackson - Martial law - 1862 - 28 pages
...of Rights accepted by William and Mary of Orange as a condition accompanying the crown, declared, " That the raising and keeping of a "standing army in time of peace without consent of Parliament "is contrary to law." There was nothing in the Declaration of Rights to annul... | |
 | Homersham Cox - Administrative law - 1863 - 862 pages
...raise. The preamble repeats the declaration of the Bill of Rights of the illegality of maintaining a standing army in time of peace without the consent of Parliament. Another declaration of the preamble is similar to that of 25 Edw. III. stat. 5, recited in the Petition... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1864 - 874 pages
...Scots, and the Second Queen's Royals."* The Declaration of Rights, in the time of William and Mary, settled in positive terms " that the raising and keeping of a standing army in time of peace, without consent of Parliament, is contrary to law." The first Mustering Act was passed in 1689, to last for... | |
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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. 
