A Defence of the Majority in the House of Commons on the Question Relating to General Warrants: In Answer to The Defence of the MinorityJ. Wilkie, 1765 - 66 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 11 - Aspersions upon both Houses of Parliament, and the most audacious Defiance of the Authority of the whole Legislature; and most manifestly tending to alienate the Affections of the People from His Majesty, to withdraw them from their Obedience to the Laws of the Realm, and to excite them to traitorous Insurrections against His Majesty's Government.
الصفحة 13 - That a general warrant for apprehending and feizing the authors, printers, and publifhers, of a feditious and treafonable libel, together with their papers, is not warranted by law...
الصفحة 29 - They, who maintained the propriety and neceffity of the motion, endeavoured to (hew the fallacy of this reafoning, and dwelt upon the importance of the queftion, the violence of the proceeding, the...
الصفحة 31 - Legality of them, one of thefe two things muft happen; either the Courts of Law muft be divided and confounded in their Opinions, or the Dignity of the Houfe of Commons muft fuffer in the Neglect and Contempt of their Refolution.
الصفحة 6 - Reafons for inferring, as he had doubtlefs his Reafons for omitting it: " That a General General Warrant for apprehending and feizing the Authors, Printers, and Publifhers of a feditious and treafonable Libel, together with their...
الصفحة 25 - ... preventing a meafure fo dangerous to liberty ; and the whole defence of that day confifted in arguing upon the impropriety of deciding in parliament a queftion then depending in a court of judicature.
الصفحة 30 - Neceffity there appeared at that Time of examining into a Power, which could not be decided but with the utmoft Gravity and Deliberation, which had the Sanction of uninterrupted Ufage, and which did not appear in the prefent Inftance to have been abufed, fince it had not been made ufe of to entrap or entangle Innocence, but manifeftly with the Intention of difcovering and bringing to Punifhment a daring and dangerous Offender.
الصفحة 11 - people from his Majefty, to withdraw them " from their obedience to the laws of the *' realm, and to excite them to traiterous rn" furrections " furreftions againft his Majefty's govern
الصفحة 52 - Edward the Firft.— The Conclufion of his Argument is as follows : " Upon the " whole Matter, after fo long a Ufage, fo «' much Approbation from the Judges and *' Parliaments, fo many publick Directions *' in Court for them, and no Complaint of " their Illegality till now, and fo plain a ?* Confiftency as they have with every funda...
الصفحة 52 - Magna Chart a, as *' the contrary is agreeable with it, which is " as plain as the Words of it." As to the fecond Point, it is not a Doctrine of the prefent Day, but has been uniformly held in all Times, that it is not neceflary to prove the Falfehood of a Libel. In a fettled State of Government, Parties grieved ought...