Declaration of Right

The terms of this act bind “us and our heirs, and our posterity, to them, their heirs, and their posterity, ” being Protestants, to the end of time, in the same words as the Declaration of Right had bound us to the heirs of King William and Queen Mary.

Paras. 25-49 1909

If the principles of the Revolution of 1688 are anywhere to be found, it is in the statute called the Declaration of Right.

Paras. 25-49 1909

By the Declaration of Right, upon which their title rested, it was decreed that after the death of William and Mary no person holding the Roman Catholic faith should ever be king or queen of

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

And I do see the time at hand; the spirit is gone forth; the Declaration of Right is planted; and though great men should fall off, yet the cause shall live; and though he who utters this should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the humble organ who conveys it, and the breath of liberty, like the word of the holy man will not die with the prophet, but survive him.

The American Union Speaker 1852

A different form was enjoined by the Declaration of Right, an instrument which was indeed revolutionary and irregular, but which might well be thought equal in authority to any statute.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

It was not strange that men who had arms and who had not necessaries should trouble themselves little about the Petition of Right and the Declaration of Right.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

Tallage, the Petition of Right, and the Declaration of Right are to

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

If I had lived when the 9th of William took away the woolen manufacture, or when the 6th of George I. declared this country to be dependent and subject to laws to be enacted by the Parliament of England, I should have made a covenant with my own conscience to seize the first moment of rescuing my country from the ignominy of such acts of power; or, if I had a son, I should have administered to him an oath that he would consider himself a person separate and set apart for the discharge of so important a duty; upon the same principle I am now come to move a Declaration of Right, the first moment occurring, since my time, in which such a declaration could be made with any chance of success, and without aggravation of oppression.

I. A Plea for Irish Legislative Independence 1906

a Declaration of Right, drawn up by the convention, and by act of

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914