 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 918 pages
...judges, and ministers employed by him" — (such was the language of the bill of Rights) — " did he endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom." The House would therefore see, that, though the king was obliged to be in communion with the church... | |
 | Charles Thomas Lane - 1828 - 192 pages
...proportion, endanger the other. — " Whereas, the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers, employed...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom ; — " By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with, and suspending of laws, and the execution... | |
 | 1828 - 1538 pages
...national liberty. " Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil councillors, judges, and ministers, employed by him, did endeavour...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom," and more to the same effect. From a com-i parison, then, of this preamble with the history of the reign... | |
 | Robert Jermyn Cooper - 1828 - 58 pages
...protestation : " That James II. by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, ministers and judges, employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate...Protestant Religion, and the laws and liberties of the kingdom."* You proceed, my Lord, as a prop to your argument, to adduce the opinion of those on... | |
 | Henry Phillpotts (bp. of Exeter.) - 1828 - 358 pages
...the laws before ; and " nobody will make that Oath to be the original contract, as " I suppose." " subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, " and the laws and liberties of this kingdom;" reciting further, that the throne being thereby become vacant, his Highness the Prince of Orange did... | |
 | Brunswicker - 1829 - 300 pages
...crown for the following reason, " Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers, employed...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom ;" and, " Whereas," proceeds the Bill of Rights, " it hath been found by experience, that it is inconsistent... | |
 | J. Bedford - 1829 - 526 pages
...judges, and ministers employed by him" — (such was the language of the bill of rights) — " did he endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestant...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom." The house would therefore see, that, though the king was obliged to be in communion with the church... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1829 - 1008 pages
...declaration was against king James, and pointed out the proceedings by which that prince endeavoured to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of the kingdom. The second part of the declaration went through those proceedings in detail, declared... | |
 | 1835 - 520 pages
...by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers, employed by him, did endeavor to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion and the laws and liberties of the kingdom, 1. By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the... | |
 | 1831 - 524 pages
...complete the proof, it would be found in the first words of the Bill of Rights : " Whereas the late king did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant...religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom," &c. Similar extracts might be multiplied to any extent ; but these suffice to shew that the first object... | |
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Whereas the late king James the Second by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom. 
