Parliament of England
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The Parliament of England (Lords and Commons), the central legislative and political authority throughout the propositions and ordinances.
An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the discharging of the Members of both Houses from all offices, both military and civil.
Provided always, that nothing in this Ordinance shall authorise the Committee hereby appointed to advise, treat or consult concerning any cessation of arms or making peace, without express directions from both Houses of Parliament.
That by Act of Parliament in each kingdom respectively, all oaths, declarations and proclamations against both or either of the Houses of Parliament of England, and the late Convention of Estates in Scotland, or Committees flowing from the Parliament or Convention in Scotland, or their Ordinances and proceedings, or against any for adhering unto them;
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The English Parliament (Lords and Commons), which retained a claimed sovereignty over national property after it was taken from the king.
The parliament, however, retained the sovereignty over the property of the nation, of which the king had been so justly deprived;
This corrects that principle of the English government, which has produced the greatest evils, “that the parliament is invested with an “absolute sovereignty over property and all other rights.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The English legislature, identified alongside the king as a potential source of unconstitutional infringement on common-law jury selection.
It will also be shown, in a subsequent chapter,* that since Magna Carta, the legislative power in England (whether king or parliament) has never had any constitutional authority to infringe, by legislation, any essential principle of the common law in the selection of jurors.