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" Army. The maintenance of a standing army, in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, is prohibited by the Bill of Rights of 1690. "
The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons - Page 368
by William Pitt - 1808
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The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Volume 32

Great Britain. Parliament - 1816 - 632 pages
...urged was, that every one who understood the constitution of England, knew that it was contrary to law to keep up a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of parliament. That was true. But all who knew what had taken place in parliament for the last hundred years, must...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of ...

Charles James Fox - 1815 - 532 pages
...preamble to the annual mutiny bill, which some people considered as bombastic, expressly stated, that a standing army, in time of peace, without the consent of parliament, was against law. If magistrates neglected to call in the military when their assistance was necessary,...
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The speeches of ... William Pitt in the House of commons [ed. by W.S. Hathaway].

William Pitt - 1817 - 458 pages
...off, and applied to a more available force. We are next told, that there is something in this rneasuw that violates the bill of rights, so far as the same...conceive to be the principle of that bill. But how do I violate it by proposing to maintain a standing army in time of war, with the consent of parliament...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pages
...preamble to th'e annual mutiny bill, which some people considered as bombastic, expressly stated,, that a standing army, in time of peace, without the consent of parliament, was against law. If magistrates neglected to call in the military when their assistance was necessary,...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Volume 21

Great Britain. Parliament - 1829 - 1008 pages
...was illegal —that to levy money without consent of parliament was illegal sive — that to maintain a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of parliament, was illegal — that the right of petition, and others therein enumerated, were the undoubted right...
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The Saturday Magazine ..., Volumes 4-5

1834 - 536 pages
...declaration in the memorable Bill of Rights, (1689,) which sets forth " that the raising and keeping a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, ^ contrary to law." The wars in which the country was subsequently engaged, caused a large augmentation...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 5

1835 - 284 pages
...declaration in the memorable Hill of Riyhts, (1689,) which sets forth " that the raising and keeping a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, is contrary to law." The wars in which the country was subsequently engaged, caused a large augmentation to be made in the...
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Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 5

Henry Grattan - 1846 - 632 pages
...Arthur Pigott (Attorney-General) told the author that Burrowes's speech was unanswerable. has declared a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, contrary to law ; has established the independence of the Judges of the land; has cherished, has secured,...
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Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 5

Henry Grattan - 1846 - 638 pages
...Arthur Pigott (Attorney-General) told the author that Burrowes's speech was unanswerable. has declared a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of Parliament, contrary to law ; has established the independence of the Judges of the land; has cherished, has secured,...
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A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire ..., Volume 2

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 846 pages
...corrected in parliament. In this list the estates denounced the committee of articles ; the keeping up of a standing army in time of peace, without the consent of parliament ; the act of supremacy, the manner and measure of the popular representation, &c. In consequence of...
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