 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 trang
...constitution by breaking the original compact between king and people, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne was thereby vacant. The house of lords, for their part, also framed a resolution that there was an original contract between... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1901 - 494 trang
...English Crown, the Parliament having previously voted (January 23rd) that James, by withdrawing himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne was thereby vacant. In Scotland the authority of the new King was established after a slight attempt at resistance; Ireland,... | |
 | Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - 876 trang
...regular way. A Convention Parliament met on 22 Jan., 1689, declared that James "having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne was thereby vacant ", and "that cx[>erience had shown it to be inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant... | |
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James having attempted to overturn the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between the king and people, and having, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws and withdrawn himself out of... 
