Synodus Anglicana

Author : Edmund Gibson
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ISBN 13 : 9781331923183
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Synodus Anglicana (Classic Reprint) written by Edmund Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Synodus Anglicana The principles of government establishment in England by the accession of king William III to the throne, however new and alarming to several orders in the state, and questionable to large masses of the people, were calculated to overcome any amount of resistance, and to become at length the prevailing sentiment of the nation. Growing naturally out of the jealousy which had from the first been entertained against the principles of the House of Stuart, embittered and exaggerated during a long interval of disorder, and matured by means of the degrading reaction that followed, they finally became the outward acts in which the whole people expressed their maintenance of their laws, their liberties, and their religion. They were embodied in the bill of rights, and were considered thenceforward as another great charter, conveying higher benefits and affecting larger interests than that ancient one, because it represented a condition of society much more advanced and complicated. The two general principles which issued from the new arrangements of this period, and directed the tendencies of public measures for the future, were the curtailment of prerogative and privilege, and the advancement of popular rights and representative government. All power had contracted the nature of a trust, and the parties for whose benefit the trust was exercised, had acquired an implicit control over the administration of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.