This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...between 1406 and 1430. CHAPTER XVI. THE PLACE OF PARLIAMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION. From the very first, the Parliament, particularly the House of Commons, not only met to discuss the king's wants, and the best means by which the wants should be aided, or to debate on business which the king put before ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...between 1406 and 1430. CHAPTER XVI. THE PLACE OF PARLIAMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION. From the very first, the Parliament, particularly the House of Commons, not only met to discuss the king's wants, and the best means by which the wants should be aided, or to debate on business which the king put before them, but to petition the king for such changes in the law as might be deemed expedient, and to receive and debate petitions for the redress of grievances suffered and complained of by private persons. It is an ancient and inalienable right of Englishmen to petition Crown and Parliament for the remedy of wrongs, and, by implication, it is the inherent right of Parliament to discuss these wrongs and suggest a remedy for them. During the earlier times in which the House of Commons became very powerful, i.e. for the first quarter of the fifteenth century, it generally proceeded to legislate by presenting a petition on some subject. The king granted or refused its prayer; and if the former was the result, the law officers of the crown were entrusted with the duty of drawing up an Act of Parliament in accordance with the terms of the petition. The various statutes were written out on a single roll, and the whole treated as one Act, of which the particular enactments were called chapters. A committee of Lords and Commons was often appointed to be present at the codifying of these petitions, for complaint was occasionally made that the king's servants introduced material changes into the words or the purport of the petition which had been granted. To the present day, the work of a parliamentary session is considered to be one Act, of which the several laws are so many chapters. There was a reason why the Commons legislated by petition. In the first...
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