The Coronation Oath Considered With Reference to the Principles of the Revolutio
The Coronation Oath Considered With Reference to the Principles of the Revolutio
Charles Thomas Lane
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The preamble contains (as has before been observed) an enumeration of the Acts by which James "did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom ;" and also, a declaration, that the object of the Convention Parliament in as- sembling was, ** in order to such an establish- ment, as that their religion, laws, and liberties, might not again be in danger of being subverted. " *'Taking, "continues the Declaration, "into their most serious cons...ideration, the hcst incuns for attaining the ends aforesaid, " they did, in the first place, declare what were the undoubted rights and lil)ertics of this pcojdo. * Her*. ' we • Vide Note D. 38 may observe, that in the series of propositions in which these rights and liberties are expressed, there is nothing which had not been as distinctly laid down in the existing laws, defining the au- thority of the sovereign, and the rights of the people. Had the Convention confined themselves to an assertion of rights, which had been often acknowledged, and often violated, without, at the same time, strengthening and extending the fences by which alone the important interests confided to them could be ever after defended from the dangers which had immediately before threatened their destruction, their work would indeed have been imperfect.
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