America Quote by Thomas Hutchinson

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

— Arthur Scargill

Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of…

— Linda Colley

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right…

— A. V. Dicey

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its…

— Winston Churchill

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it…

— James Otis

There is a tendency for the British establishment to work out everything very carefully and then present it to parliament as 'a take it…

— Crispin Blunt

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and…

— John Adams

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to…

— Edmund Burke

“To this declaration they added a definite act of sovereignty which trespassed upon and contradicted the legal authority of the Crown. True, the motion…

— Hilaire Belloc

“the commons put forward an exceedingly detailed and comprehensive petition regarding the labour system. It resulted in the statute which made communities responsible for…

— Ian Mortimer

“Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a…

— Rudolf Rocker

What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain…

— Bernard Bailyn