The Clarke Papers: Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, Tema 1

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Camden Society, 1891
 

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Página 287 - I think that no person hath a right to an interest or share in the disposing of the affairs of the kingdom, and in determining or choosing those that shall determine what laws we shall be ruled by here— no person hath a right to this, that hath not a permanent fixed interest in this kingdom...
Página 398 - A faithful Memorial of that remarkable Meeting of many Officers of the Army in England at Windsor Castle, in the Year 1648, &c., &c.
Página 304 - Every person in England hath as clear a right to elect his representative as the greatest person in England. I conceive that's the undeniable maxim of government : that all government is in the free consent of the people.
Página vi - FSA The COUNCIL of the CAMDEN SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications ; the Editors of the several works being alone responsible for the same.
Página 287 - I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government...
Página 137 - Heath, I never gave my free consent to any thing they did : but being yet undischarged of my place, they set my name in way of course to all their papers, whether I consented or not : and to such failings are all authorities subject.
Página 308 - There are many thousands of us soldiers that have ventured our lives; we have had little propriety in the kingdom as to our estates, yet we have had a birthright. But it seems now, except a man hath a fixed estate in this kingdom, he hath no right in this kingdom. I wonder we were so much deceived. If we had not a right to the kingdom...
Página 411 - March, 1855, and that we have examined the said accounts, with the vouchers relating thereto, and find the same to be correct and satisfactory. And we further report, that the following is an Abstract of the Receipts and Expenditure during the period we have mentioned.
Página 287 - Give me leave to tell you that if you make this the rule, I think you must fly for refuge to an absolute natural right and you must deny all civil right; and I am sure it will come to that in the consequence.
Página lxiii - I do think, and am still of the same opinion, that every man born in England cannot, ought not, neither by the Law of God nor the Law of Nature, to be exempted from the choice of those who are to make laws for him to live under, and for him, for aught I know, to lose his life under.