单词 | petition of rights |
释义 | > as lemmasPetition of Rights b. Usually with capital initials. Also more fully Petition of Rights. English History. The parliamentary declaration of the rights and liberties of the people, presented to Charles I in a petition in 1627 and assented to by the monarch in 1628. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > civil rights > specific declaration of petition of right1636 Bill of Rights1768 1627 Act 3 Chas. I (title) The peticion exhibited to His Majestie by the Lordes Spirituall and Temporall and Comons in this present Parliament assembled concerning divers rightes and liberties of the subjectes.] 1636 W. Prynne Certaine Quæres 27 The Statute of Magna Charta: c. 29. the Petition of Right, with other Lawes enacted for the peoples liberties, which cannot be taken from them, but by Parliament. 1641 Ld. Digby Speeches High Court Parl. 19 The first mover, and insister to have this clause added to the Petition of Right. a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1628 10/2 The King gave another Answer to the Petition of Right,..which satisfied the Commons,..and so that excellent Law passed. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 6 Yet all these Provocations, and many other..produced no other Resentment than the Petition of Right. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 134 This drew on a parliamentary enquiry, and produced the petition of right, 3 Car. I. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vii. 423 The Petition of Right, as this statute is still called, from its not being drawn in the common form of an act of parliament. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. vi. 115 These Graces, the Irish analogue of the Petition of Rights. 1921 Eng. Hist. Rev. 36 512 In 1628 there was a suggestion..to make the Petition of Right a preamble to the subsidy bill. 1999 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 38 179 In 1629 the same defense was used by those who refused to pay tonnage and poundage, which Charles collected..in direct violation of the Petition of Right. < as lemmas |
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