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. From that time... The Statesman's Year-book - Side 51redigeret af - 1899Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Benson John Lossing - 1871 - 684 sider
...(4) that the subject had a right to petition his sovereign ; (5) that it was illegal to raise or keep a standing army in time of peace without the consent of parliament; (6) that Protestant subjects might keep arms for their defence ; (7) that the election of members of... | |
| Isaac Butt - 1871 - 132 sider
...William III., and with it arose the annual assertion of the principle that it is unlawful to maintain a standing army in time of peace without the consent of Parliament.! In Ireland matters went on as they had done in England in the days of the Stuarts, without either Mutiny... | |
| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 264 sider
...either to suspend or dispense with the laws, to levy money without the consent of Parliament, to keep a standing army in time of peace without the consent of Parliament, to question the freedom of speech in Parliament in any place out of Parliament, or to impose cruel... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1873 - 488 sider
...declared on this occasion, were the imposition of customs or imposts by royal authority; the levying a standing army in time of peace without the consent of Parliament; the want of effectual remedies against the Highlanders ; the trial and punishment of juries for finding... | |
| Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 966 sider
...the troops to be maintained. The preamble of this statute, after reciting that the raising or keeping a standing army in time of peace without the consent of parliament is illegal(e), and that it is adjudged necessary that a body of forces should be continued for the safety... | |
| Alexander Snell Cantlay - 1875 - 82 sider
...all prisoners be indicted the first term and tried the second after commitment. V. (1) To maintain a standing army in time of peace without the consent of Parliament is illegal. (2) That no taxes be levied without the consent of Parliament. (3) That Members of Parliament... | |
| Frederick Martin, Sir John Scott Keltie, Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick, Mortimer Epstein, Sigfrid Henry Steinberg, John Paxton, Brian Hunter, Barry Turner - 1876 - 876 sider
...8,606,647 7,023,435 9,342,652 11,992,705 7,442,854 6,265,322 Army and Navy. 1. Army. The maintenance of a standing army, in time of peace, without the consent...Parliament, is prohibited by the Bill of Rights of 1690. From that time to the present, the number of troops which the security of the kingdom and its... | |
| George Elliot Voyle, G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson - 1876 - 676 sider
...was destroyed. The Declaration of Rights settled, in positive terms, that the raising and keeping of a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of parliament, is contrary to law. The first Mutiny Act was passed in 1689. It was to last for six months only ; but... | |
| Guido Norman Lieber - 1876 - 24 sider
...standing army, cxpressad in the Bill of Rights by the announcement of the constitutional principle that a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, is against the law. Until the Restoration there was no permanent military peace establishment in England.... | |
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