Showing posts with label the British Parliament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the British Parliament. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Giving Congress the power to coin money was a break with British precedents

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“The coining of money is in all states the act of the sovereign power; for the reason just mentioned, that it's value may be known on...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

The British Parliament was the main model for the United States Congress

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“It will be the business of this chapter to consider the British parliament ; in which the legislative power, and (of course) the supreme ...

5 surprising ways that the Congress was modeled on the British Parliament

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“... in the main the constitution of parliament , as it now stands, was marked out so long ago as the seventeenth year of king John, A. D....
Sunday, December 16, 2018

The Habeas Corpus Act and the English Bill of Rights influenced our Constitution

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“The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may r...
Friday, June 15, 2018

When King John signed the Magna Carta, it was like signing a surrender document …

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“No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed , nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, exce...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

The Petition of Right influenced the United States Bill of Rights

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“The history of  Great Britain  is the one with which we are in general the best acquainted, and it gives us  many useful lessons . We may...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Cromwell: The movie that brings the English Civil War to life

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The English Civil War was a war over ideas, much like the American Revolution ... The British historian  Simon Schama  once said that th...