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The liberties of England asserted, In Opposition to Popery, Slavery, and Modern Innovation.
Date: 1714- Books
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An historical treatise on the feudal law, and the constitution and laws of England; with a commentary on Magna Charta, And necessary Illustrations of many of the English Statutes. In a course of lectures read in the University of Dublin, by the late Francis Stoughton Sullivan, L.L.D. Royal Professor of the Common Law in that University.
Sullivan, Francis Stoughton, 1719-1776.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Law tracts, in two volumes, by William Blackstone, Esq. ...
Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780.Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]- Books
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Cases in law and equity: argued, debated and adjudged in the King's Bench and Chancery, in the twelfth and thirteenth years of Queen Anne, ... With two treatises, the one on the action of debt, the other on the constitution of England. Now first printed from the original manuscript of the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: 1760- Books
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An historical and political discourse of the laws and government of England, from the first times to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a vindication of the antient way of Parliaments in England. Collected from some manuscript notes of John Selden Esq; by Nathaniel Bacon, of Grays-Inn, Esq;
Selden, John, 1584-1654.Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The constitution asserted and vindicated.
Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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The speech of Dr. John Free, containing a concise and clear account of the English constitution, both old and new: And of the Rise, and Progress of the modern Part of that Assembly, which we now call the Parliament. Delivered July 30, 1753. to the Worshipful the Mayor, aldermen, and citizens, at the town-hall in Oxford, upon taking up his Freedom of the City.
Free, John, 1712?-Date: 1753- Books
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His Majesty's Opposition, 1714-1830 / by Archibald S. Foord.
Foord, Archibald SDate: 1964- Books
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Tracts on the liberty, spiritual and temporal, of Protestants in England. Addressed to J.N. Esq; at Aix-la-Chapelle. In two parts. By Anthony Ellys, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of St. David's.
Ellys, Anthony, 1690-1761.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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An historical and political discourse of the laws and government of England, from the first times to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a vindication of the antient way of Parliaments in England. Collected from some manuscript notes of John Selden, Esq; by Nathaniel Bacon, of Grays-Inn, Esq;
Selden, John, 1584-1654.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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Lectures on the constitution and laws of England: with a commentary on Magna Charta, and illustrations of many of the English statutes. By the late Francis Stoughton Sullivan, LL. D. Royal Professor of Common Law in the University of Dublin. The second edition. To which authorities are added, and a discourse is prefixed, concerning the Laws and Government of England. By Gilbert Stuart, LL. D.
Sullivan, Francis Stoughton, 1719-1776.Date: 1790- Books
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General thoughts on the construction, Use and Abuse of the great offices; with A View to some further Discourses on the same subject.
McCulloh, Henry, -1778.Date: [1754]- Books
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Reflections on government in general, with their application to the British constitution. In five sections. I. On the natural Equality of Man; with Remarks on the Republican and Monarchical Forms. II. On the Form of Government, relative to the Security of Liberty. III. On Government, relative to the Improvement of the People; with Observations on Reform. IV. On Government relative to Religion. V. On Government, relative to its Origin and Powers; its Laws and Organization. By Charles Watkins, Esq.
Watkins, Charles, -1808.Date: 1796- Books
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The persian strip'd of his disguise: or, remarks on a late libel, intitled, Letters from a Persian in England to his friend at Ispahan.
Date: 1735- Books
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The persian strip'd of his disguise: or, remarks on a late libel, intitled, Letters from a Persian in England to his friend at Ispahan.
Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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A dissertation upon parties; in several letters to Caleb D'Anvers, Esq; dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751.Date: MDCC,XXXV. [1735]- Books
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The judgment of whole kingdoms and nations, concerning the rights, power, and prerogative of kings, and the rights, privileges & properties of the people: shewing the nature of government in general, both from God and man. An account of the British government; and the rights and privileges of the people in the time of the Saxons, and since the Conquest. The government which God ordained over the children of Israel; and that all magistrates and governors proceed from the people, by many examples in Scripture and history; and the duty of magistrates from Scriptur and reason. An account of eleven emperors, and above fifty kings, depriv'd for their evil government. The right of the people and Parliament of Britain, to resist and deprive their kings for evil government, by King Henry's charter; and likewise in Scotland, by many examples. ... By Lord Sommers.
Date: 1774- Books
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A dissertation upon parties; in several letters to Caleb D'Anvers, Esq; Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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Lectures on the constitution and laws of England: with a commentary on Magna Charta, and illustrations of many of the English statutes. By the late Francis Stoughton Sullivan, LL. D. Royal Professor of Common Law in the University of Dublin. The second edition. To which authorities are added, and a discourse is prefixed, concerning the Laws and Government of England. By Gilbert Stuart, LL. D.
Sullivan, Francis Stoughton, 1719-1776.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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An essay on the English constitution and government. By Edward King, Esq. Of Lincoln's-Inn.
King, Edward, 1735?-1807.Date: M.DCC.LXVII. [1767]- Books
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The spiritual and temporal liberty of subjects in England. Addressed to J. N. Esq; at Aix-la-Chapelle. In two parts. Part I. Of the spiritual liberty of protestants in England. Part II. Of the temporal liberty of subjects in England. By Anthony Ellys, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of St. David's.
Ellys, Anthony, 1690-1761.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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A history and defence of Magna Charta. Containing a copy of the original charter at large, with an English translation; The Manner of its being obtained from King John, With its Preservation and Final Establishment in the Succeeding Reigns; with an introductory discourse, Containing a short Account of the Rise and Progress of National Freedom, From the Invasion of Caesar to the present Times. Also the Liberties which are confirmed by the Bill of Rights, &c. To which is added, An essay on Parliaments, Describing their Origin in England, And the extraordinary Means by which they have been lengthened from Half Yearly to Septennial ones.
Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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English liberties, or The free-born subject's inheritance. Containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, the statute De Tallagio non Concedendo, the Habeas Corpus Act, and several other statutes; with comments on each of them ... with many law-cases throughout the whole. Compiled first by Henry Care, and continued, with large additions, by William Nelson, of the Middle-Temple, Esq;
Care, Henry, 1646-1688.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The judgment of whole kingdoms and nations, concerning the rights, power, and prerogative of kings, and the rights, priviledges, and properties of the people: shewing, The Nature of Government in general, both from God and Man An Account of the British Government, and the Rights and Priviledges of the People in the Time of the Saxons, and since the Conquest. The Government which God ordain'd over the Children of Israel; and that all Magistrates and Governors proceed from the People, by many Examples of Scripture and History, and the Duty of Magistrates from Scripture and Reason. Eleven Emperors, and above fifty Kings deprived for their evil Government. The Rights of the People and Parliament of Britain, to resist and deprive their Kings for evil Government, by King Henry's Charter, and by many Examples. The Prophets and antient Jews, Strangers to absolute Passive Obedience: Resisting of arbitrary Government is allow'd by several Examples in Scripture, by most Nations and by undeniable Reason. A large Account of the Revolution; with several Speeches, Declarations and Addresses and the Names and Proceedings of Ten Bishops, and above Sixty Peers, concern'd in the Revolution before King James went out of England. Several Declarations in Queen Elizabeth's Time of the Clergy in Convocation and the Parliament who assisted, and justified the Scotch, French and Dutch, in resisting of their Evil and Destructive Princes. Recommended as proper to be kept in all Families, that their Childrens Children may know the Birth-Right, Liberty and Property belonging to an English-Man. And that they may have a just Notion of Government and of Obedience, according to Scripture, Law and undeniable Reason. Written by a true lover of the Queen and country, who wrote in the year 1689. in vindication of the revolution, in a challenge to all Jacobites, which was answer'd and Printed with a Reply annex'd to it; and who wrote in the Year 1690. against absolute Passive-Obedience, and in Vindication of the Revolution; in a Challenge to Sir R. l'Estrange, Dr. Sherlock, and eleven other Divines; to which no Answer ever was made, which Challenges and Answer are to be seen in the first Volume of State Tracts in Folio, Printed in the Year 1705. who now challenges Dr. Hicks, Dr. Atterbury; Dr. Welton, Mr. Milbourne, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Lesley, Mr. Collier, Mr. Whaley and Mr. Tilly of Oxford, and the great Champion, Dr. Sacheverell, or any other Person to answer this Book.
True lover of Queen and country.Date: 1710- Books
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The judgment of whole kingdoms and nations, concerning the rights, power, and prerogative of kings, and the rights, priviledges, and properties of the people: shewing, the nature of government in general, both from God and man[.] An account of the British government, and the rights and priviledges of the people in the time of the Saxons, and since the Conquest. The government which God ordain'd over the children of Israel; and that all magistrates and governors proceed from the people, by many examples of Scripture and history, and the duty of magistrates from Scripture and reason. Eleven emperors, and above fifty kings deprived for their evil government. The rights of the people and Parliament of Britain, to resist and deprive their kings for evil government, by King Henry's charter, and by many examples. ... Written by a true lover of the Queen and country, who wrote in the year 1689. in vindication of the Revolution, in a challenge to all Jacobites, which was answer'd and printed with a reply annex'd to it; and who wrote in the year 1690. against absolute passive-obedience, and in vindication of the Revolution; in a challenge to Sir R. l' Estrange, Dr. Sherlock, and eleven other divines; to which no answer ever was made, which challenges and answer are to be seen in the first volume of state tracts in folio, printed in the year 1705. who now challenges Dr. Hicks, Dr. Atterbury, Dr. Welton, Mr. Milbourne, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Lesley, Mr. Collier, Mr. Whaley and Mr. Tilly of Oxford, and the great champion, Dr. Sacheverell, or any other person to answer this book.
True Lover of the Queen and Country.Date: 1710