Petition of Right

1. The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 7 authority 7 citations · 10 passages

   ch. 3 2 passages anchored here · ch. 5 · ch. 13 2 passages anchored here · ch. 14 5 passages anchored here

   The passage relies on the Petition of Right as the authoritative statutory basis restricting royal taxation and describes it as legally binding on later disputes.

   To levy direct taxation to meet extraordinary expenditure without recourse to Parliament was not only contrary to the Petition of Right, but was certain, if the system was allowed to establish itself, to enable the King to supply himself with all that he might need even in time of war without calling Parliament at all.

2. Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 1 authority · 1 refuted · 1 extended 3 citations

   ch. 121 · (3): per legem terrae. · ch. 165

   The Petition of Right is named directly as the legal instrument that branded Charles I's billeting practice illegal, invoked as authority for the illegitimacy of the abuse.

   made an oppressive use of this prerogative, punishing householders who refused to pay illegal taxes by quartering his dissolute soldiery upon them, a practice branded as illegal by the Petition of Right in 1628.

3. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated John Taylor of Caroline 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 7

   Cited alongside Magna Carta by the colonies as further English precedent for limiting the means of supreme sovereign power.

   where magna charta, the petition of right, and many declaratory laws, had limited its means to a great extent:

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