 I know that prerogative is a part of the law ; but " sovereign power" is no parliamentary word. In my opinion, it weakens Magna Charta and all the statutes, for they are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power. And should we now add it, we shall...  The Eclectic Review - Page 390edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Scott GORDON, Scott Gordon - Political Science - 2009 - 408 pages
...word in my opinion. It weakens Magna Carta and all other statutes, for they are absolute without any saving of sovereign power, and shall we now add it we shall weaken the foundations of law, and then the building must needs fall" (Lockyer, 1989, 342; Lockyer's italics).... | |
 | Robert Zaller - History - 2007 - 844 pages
...word in my opinion. It weakens Magna Carta and all other statutes, for they are absolute without any saving of sovereign power; and shall we now add it, we shall weaken the foundations of law, and then the building must needs fall. ... By implication we give a sovereign power... | |
 | Ariel Hessayon - History - 2007 - 508 pages
...(1552-1634), formerly Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, advised, 'take we heed what we yield unto, Magna Charta is such a Fellow, that he will have no Sovereign'. According to Coke, the Charter of 1225 tended to: 104 Anon., Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (1648),... | |
 | American essays - 1863 - 794 pages
...word. In my opinion, it weakens Magna Charta and all our statutes ; for they are absolute without any saving of sovereign power. And shall we now add it,...foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what we yield unto. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." * But... | |
 | American essays - 1863 - 834 pages
...word. In my opinion, it weakens Magna Charta and all our statutes ; for they are absolute without any saving of sovereign power. And shall we now add it,...foundation of law, and then the building must needs fall. Take we heed what we yield unto. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." * But... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 340 pages
...celebrated speech against inserting the words " sovereign power" in the prerogative of the throne, " Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign." So say we of our Constitution. It is the master of the President and of Congress. By it we mean one... | |
 | 76 pages
...judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." "Magna Charta," Coke told the Parliament of 1628, "Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." -° It was this same Parliament which presented to King Charles the great Petition of Right that served... | |
 | Philip Gibbs - Great Britain - 1908 - 502 pages
...Power is no Parliamentary word. In my opinion it weakens Magna Charta, and all our statutes. . . . Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no Sovereign. I wonder this Sovereign was not in Magna Charta or in the confirmation of it. If we grant this, by... | |
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