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	The Avalon Project : English Bill of Rights 1689
		An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
		That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;
		Upon which their said Majesties did accept the crown and royal dignity of the kingdoms of England, France and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the resolution and desire of the said Lords and Commons contained in the said declaration.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/england.htm (839 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bill of Rights 1689
		The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive rights that its authors considered that citizens and/or residents of a constitutional monarchy ought to have.
		The Bill of Rights 1689 was later supplemented in England by the Act of Settlement 1701, and in Scotland the Claim of Right was supplemented by the Act of Union 1707.
		The Bill of Rights 1689 is a predecessor of the United States Constitution, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689 (1255 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bill of rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A bill of rights can be a statement of certain rights that may be guaranteed to citizens or residents of a society, legal jurisdiction, or nation-state; or an enumeration of rights they would like to have or believe they ought to have.
		A bill of rights is a statement of certain rights which, under a society's laws, citizens and/or residents either have, want to have, or ought to have.
		^ Preamble to the Bill of Rights (2006-03-10).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bill-of-rights (1835 words)

	Bill of Rights 1689 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive rights that its authors considered that citizens and/or residents of a free and democratic society ought to have.
		The Bill of Rights 1689 was later supplemented in England by the Act of Settlement 1701, and in Scotland the Claim of Right was supplemented by the Act of Union 1707.
		The Bill of Rights 1689 is a predecessor of the United States Constitution, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689 (1266 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Bill of Rights 1689
		The Bill of Rights 1689 is not a bill of rights, in the sense of a statement of certain rights that citizens and/or residents of a free and democratic society have (or ought to have), but rather addresses only the rights of Parliamentarians sitting in Parliament as against the Crown.
		The Bill of Rights 1689 was later supplemented in England by the Act of Settlement 1701, and in Scotland the Claim of Right was supplemented by the Act of Union 1707.
		The Bill of Rights and Claim of Right were a major step in the evolution of the governments in Britain towards parliamentary supremacy, and the curtailment of the rights of the monarchy.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Bill_of_Rights_1689 (1073 words)

	Bill of rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bill of rights is a statement of certain rights which, under a society's laws, citizens and/or residents either have, want to have, or ought to have.
		A bill of rights that is written into the constitution of a country is a constitutional bill of rights.
		Infringement of rights protected by a bill of rights (such as by repeal of statutory protections or by statutory infringement of constitutionally protected rights) may cause civil unrest, civil disobedience or even revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_of_Rights (652 words)

	Bill of rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rights outlined in a constitution are protected from being changed as other acts cannot contradict or contravene the provisions of an entrenched bill of rights.
		As such there is democratic protection of the bill of rights as the constitution containing the bill of rights cannot be changed unless it is with the approval of the voting public in that country.
		A 'bill of rights' may also be an aspirational statement of the rights that citizens ought to have even though the defining body does not have the ability to enforce the protection of those rights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_of_rights (652 words)

	english bill of rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bill of Rights, entitled "An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown", is one of the basic documents of English...
		The Bill of Rights derives from the Magna Carta (1215), the English Bill of Rights (1689) and the colonial struggle...
		This bill was a precursor to the American Bill of Rights, and set out strict limits on the Royal Family's legal prerogatives such as a prohibition against arbitrary suspension of Parliament's laws.
	www.english-megasite.com /articles/10/english-bill-of-rights.html (586 words)

	Menneskerettigheder - Bill of Rights (1689) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bill of Rights er et resultat af parlamentets oprør ("the Glorious Revolution") mod den engelske konge der havde forsøgt at genindføre den romersk katolske kirkes førsterang i England trods parlamentets love og den anglikanske kirkes modstand.
		Efter kroningen vedtog parlamentet Bill of Rights der erklærede nogle rettigheder og friheder for borgerne, og fastsatte parlamentets ret til at vælge monarken og diktere dennes religion.
		And that for redress of all grievances and for the amending, strengtening and preserving of the laws parliaments ought to be held frequently.
	www.menneskeret.dk /menneskeretieuropa/mrudvikling/billofrights (936 words)

	Bill of Rights 1689
		The crux of the case relied on the Bill of Rights 1689 which was referred to by Lord Justice Laws in the Metric Martyrs Judgment (18th February 2002 at the Royal Courts of Justice) as being a...
		Bill of Rights, 1689 The Bill of Rights 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the long title An...
		The English Bill of Rights (1689) and the travesty of justice being...
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689 (358 words)

	Bill of Rights (English)
		The Bill of Rights embodied the Declaration of Rights which contained the conditions on which William and Mary were offered the throne in the Glorious Revolution.
		It also asserted a right to petition the sovereign, freedom of parliamentary elections, freedom of speech in parliamentary debates, and the necessity of frequent parliaments.
		The Bill of Rights is the nearest approach to a written constitution that the United Kingdom possesses.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0037057.html (345 words)

	Bill_of_Rights_1689 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive rights that its authors considered that citizens and/or residents of a constitutional monarchy ought to have.
		The Bill of Rights and Claim of Right contributed a great deal to the establishment of British parliamentary supremacy, and the curtailment of the rights of the monarchy.
		The Bill of Rights and Claim of Right were two main causes of the transmutation of Britain into a constitutional monarchy.
	www.printpromotionguide.com /article.php?t=Bill_of_Rights_1689 (1184 words)

	English Bill Of Rights 1689 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Uphold the...
		bill or bills to be passed during this present session...
		Rights was to establish the protestant church, ensuring that England could never again be a Catholic country,...
	www.futuregate.co.uk /english_bill_of_rights_1689.html (189 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Stuarts > Mary II and William III
		The exclusion of James II and his heirs was extended to exclude all Catholics from the throne, since 'it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince'.
		The Bill of Rights had established the succession with the heirs of Mary II, Anne and William III in that order, but by 1700 Mary had died childless, Anne's only surviving child (out of 17 children), the Duke of Gloucester, had died at the age of 11 and William was dying.
		The Act of Settlement reinforced the Bill of Rights, in that it strengthened the principle that government was undertaken by the Sovereign and his or her constitutional advisers (i.e.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page100.asp (1015 words)

	Strange Battle for the U.S. Bill of Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Virginia Bill of Rights, which George Mason had drafted, didn’t protect freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the right to be represented by a lawyer, separation of church and state or freedom from ex post facto laws.
		The Bill of Rights (1689) was the agreement accepted by William of Orange as the condition for being crowned king of England.
		This Bill of Rights established the supremacy of Parliament, and it said that the government “ought not” to impose excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishments; the English Bill of Rights lacked the clear-cut prohibitions in the American Bill of Rights.
	www.libertystory.net /LSUNFORGETBATTLEFORBILLRIGHTS.htm (3556 words)

	Bill Of Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term is also applied to the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and the Canadian Bill of Rights of 1960, and to similar guarantees in the constitutions of the American states.
		The distinctive feature of the provisions in American bills of rights is that they are enforced by the courts; statutes and other governmental acts that conflict with them may be ruled void if their constitutionality is appropriately challenged.
		The first state bill of rights was the Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted as part of the state's first constitution on June 12, 1776.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/BILLOFRI.HTM (1291 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Bill of Rights Act, 1689 — The Glorious Revolution
		The Bill of Rights Act, 1689 is considered by many to be the third greatest charter of English liberties after the Magna Carta, 1215 and the Petition of Right, 1628.
		Never again would English monarchs claim their power came from God as The Bill of Rights Act, 1689 represented the end of the concept of divine right of kings, which was one of the issues over which the English Civil War had been fought.
		The right of free petitioning was reinstated by the Act.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A700372 (2470 words)

	Bill of Rights 1689 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bill of Rights 1689 is not a bill of rights, in the sense of a statement of certain rights that citizens and/or residents of a free and democratic society have (or ought to have), but rather addresses only the rights of Parliamentarians sitting in Parliament as against the Crown.
		In this respect, it differs substantially in form and intent from other "bills of rights," including the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which are also known as the "Bill of Rights".
		Two special designs of the British two pound coin were issued in 1989 to celebrate the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution, one referring to the Bill of Rights and the other to the Claim of Right.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Bill_of_Rights_%28England%29 (918 words)

	History of Bail
		With James Madison designated to prepare an initial draft for Bill of Rights n 1789, the Virginia constitution, often referred to as the Virginia Bill of Rights, became the model for the first ten amendments that passed congress in 1789 and were ratified in 1791.
		The Eighth Amendment in this Bill of Rights was taken virtually verbatim from Section 9 of the Virginia Constitution and provided that "Excessive bail shall not be required..." The only comment on the clause during the congressional debates was made by the perplexed Mr.
		Like the identical clause in the English Bill of Rights and the Virginia Constitution, the Eighth Amendment bail provision was intended to prohibit excessive bail as a means of holding suspects accused of offenses deemed bailable by Congress.
	www.bail.com /history.htm (2895 words)

	Today in History: December 15
		Other amendments guarantee the rights of the people to form a "well-regulated militia," to keep and bear arms, the rights to private property, fair treatment for accused criminals, protection from unreasonable search and seizure, freedom from self-incrimination, a speedy and impartial jury trial, and representation by counsel.
		The Bill of Rights draws influence and inspiration from the Magna Carta (1215), the English Bill of Rights (1689), and various later efforts in England and America to expand fundamental rights.
		Bill of Rights, one of The Charters of Freedom in the Exhibit Hall of the National Archives and Records Administration.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec15.html (763 words)

	EducationforFreedom
		The Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791, was the result of more than a century of experience with rights in America and many centuries before that in England.
		Congressional debates over the Bill of Rights drafted by James Madison, then a U.S. representative from Virginia, were, in Madison’s words, “extremely difficult and fatiguing.” Members of Congress challenged each other to duels at one passionate point in the debates.
		This satisfied the requirement of approval by three-fourths of the states, and the Bill of Rights became part of the law of the land.
	www.freedomforum.org /packages/first/curricula/educationforfreedom/BriefHistory.htm (958 words)

	The English Bill of Rights (1689) and the travesty of justice being forced upon us by Ontario Bill 117, a ...
		Those abuses of human rights and freedoms outlined in the preamble to the English Bill of Rights (1689) led to a revolution that deposed of the King of England and resulted in the creation of modern democracy not only in England but, ultimately, in many other nations.
		We still have the right to vote, although the parties in power give themselves increasingly more power to make it more and more difficult for any opposition to their rule to make its votes count.
		The "inalienable" rights established in the English Bill of Rights that were the blueprint for all constitutions in the free, democratic world will be officially dead when Bill 117 becomes law.
	www.fathersforlife.org /rights/english_bill_of_rights.htm (1277 words)

	1689: The English Bill of Rights > Duhaime Law
		At this time, the Bill of Rights was read to both William and Mary.
		The Bill of Rights was designed to control the power of kings and queens and to make them subject to laws passed by Parliament.
		The other two were the 1689 Toleration Act (which promoted religious toleration) and the 1694 Triennial Act, which prevented the King from dissolving Parliament at his will and held that general elections had to be held every three years.
	www.duhaime.org /LegalResources/LawMuseum/tabid/345/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/110/1689-The-English-Bill-of-Rights.aspx (1339 words)

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