 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1826 - 326 pages
...commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that ' king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself, had abdicated the government, and... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 422 pages
...concurrence. It was contained in these words : " That king James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 566 pages
...remarkable vote without a division. " Resolved, That King James the Second, 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king and people; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 562 pages
...remarkable vote without a division. " Resolved, That King James the Second, 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... | |
 | 1833 - 540 pages
...expressions are frequently confounded, the word abdication differs from resignation in this, that the firmer signifies a total and uncon•ditional renunciation...and people, virtually renounced the authority which ho claimed by that very constitution, and that, therefore, the throne had become vacant. It appears,... | |
 | 1834 - 454 pages
...declared vacant by the following vote: — " That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 pages
...It is in the following words : " Resolved, that King James the Second, 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king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn... | |
 | 1831 - 500 pages
...tory, the memorable vote was passed in these words : " That king James II. having endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and having by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persrns violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 422 pages
...Lordships have agreed ; for your Lordships have agreed that King James II. hath endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and hath violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of the kingdom. Now the word ' deserted'... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 418 pages
...the following memorable resolution : — " That King James -the Second, 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... | |
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second, 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... 
