Petition of Right

The commons pretended not, as they affirmed, to any unusual powers or privileges: they aimed only at securing those which had been transmitted them from their ancestors: and their law they resolved to call a Petition of Right; as implying that it contained a corroboration or explanation of the ancient constitution, not any infringement of royal prerogative, or acquisition of new liberties.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell David Hume 1743

"In the famous law of the third of Charles the firft, called the Petition of Right, the Parliament fays to the king — Your fubjecis have inherited this freedom (claiming their their franchifes) not on abftracT: principles as the rights of men, but as the rights of Englifhmen, and as a patrimony derived from their forefathers."

Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France : in a letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Stanhope 1791

Carta, the Petition of Right, and other statutes limiting the royal power.

Early European History Hutton Webster

We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning!

The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner

The Bill of Rights, far more important in English history than the Petition of Right (1628), inasmuch as Parliament was now powerful enough to maintain as well as to define its rights, was supplemented by the practice, begun in the same year, 1689, of granting taxes and making appropriations for the army for one year only.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

[Footnote 26: The text of the Petition of Right is printed in Stubbs, Select Charters, 515-517; Adams and Stephens, Select Documents, 339-342.] * 30.

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

They think the Parliament of Great Britain can not properly give that consent till it has representatives from America, for the Petition of Right expressly says it is to be by common consent in Parliament, and the people of America have no representatives in Parliament to make a part of that common consent.

I. His Examination Before the House of Commons 1906

On this right of exclusive legislation are founded the Petition of Right, Bill of Rights, Revolution, and Act of Settlement.

I. A Plea for Irish Legislative Independence 1906

Arbitrary government in this form was one of the first objects of attack by the English Parliament in the seventeenth century, and this first liberty of the subject was vindicated by the Petition of Right, and again by the Habeas Corpus Act. It is significant of much that this first step in liberty should be in reality nothing more nor less than a demand for law.

Liberalism 1896

The Magna Charter, granted by King John, at Runney Mead, to the Barons of England, in the twelfth century, followed by the Petition of Right by

Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885