After the Restoration, all legal decisions of the Commonwealth and Protectorate were confirmed subject to a right of appeal.
Those in power in the new Commonwealth tended to explain their regime in terms of popular consent, and the takeover from Charles I as due to his breaking of a contract with the people.
Also in 1649 it declared that England "should thenceforth be governed as a commonwealth and free state by the supreme authority of this nation, the representatives of the people in Parliament.
THE SITE The building stood on the brow of a hill, the land sloping off gently to the north, and faced upon a broad plaza, through which ran one of the most frequented highways within the grounds, known as Commonwealth avenue.
There were State buildings which represented an outlay of considerably more money, but none which typified the commonwealth for which it stood more thoroughly than did the New York State building.
His city residence is at 191 Commonwealth Avenue; his summer abode is at Pride's Crossing, city of Beverly.
Well might Duplessis Mornay observe, that the commonwealth had been rather strangled than embraced by the English Queen.
Certainly, if there had ever been a time when the new commonwealth of the Netherlands should be both united in itself and on thoroughly friendly terms with England, it was exactly that epoch of which we are treating.
By reason of the preponderant strength of our Commonwealth we have deemed ourselves less in need of such a union than are our sister colonies, but this recent experience must teach us that even we are not strong enough to stand alone.
Make way for the honorable justices of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!
At first, however, though “there was a division among the nobles of the city in that one loved the lordship of the Church, and the other that of the Empire, yet in regard to the state and welfare of the commonwealth all were in concord.
The position, too, of women in the commonwealth proved a high degree of civilization.
It is not entirely the commonwealth of the United Netherlands that is of importance in the epoch which I have endeavoured to illustrate.
The new commonwealthhad taken its place among the nations of the earth.
Thus modestly, religiously, and sincerely spoke a statesman, who felt that he had accomplished a great work, and that he had indeed brought the commonwealth through the tempest at last.
In, the commonwealth labour was most honourable; in the kingdom it was vile.
With those of the commonwealth he held no part; that he was a royalist at heart his great satire indicates.
The reign of the Commonwealth had not been, remarkable for its virtue, though it had been notable for its pharisaism.
From which evidences it may be gathered, that London under the Commonwealth was little less vicious than under the merry monarch.
These, as well as all the other persons buried in the Abbey during the Commonwealth who were in any way connected with the republican party, were disinterred by order of Charles II.
We have referred once or twice to the Commonwealth era, when Presbyterian ministers preached in the church, and the Deanery was leased for a while to the Lord President of the Council, John Bradshaw.
State charter to return to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts all of its earnings in excess of an annual 8 per cent.
And the grand charity for which we to-day bless our Commonwealth is only one of many by which she is already illustrious.
Nor do I doubt that you will act as becomes theCommonwealth that has committed to you her name.
By the example of our fathers, who laid the foundations of this Commonwealth in knowledge and in justice, who built schools and set their faces against Slavery, we are urged to special effort.
This broader economic estimate of society could but be favorable to women, whose valuation as a part of the commonwealth was largely regulated by their utility.
It was an urgent message, amounting to a command, for in his own commonwealth Scattergood Baines was able to command when the need required.
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Probably, however, there was no single individual in the commonwealth who could exert as much influence as he.
Gettemy, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Labor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The counsel for the Commonwealth had argued that the appellate jurisdiction conferred by the Constitution on the Supreme Court was merely authority to revise the decisions of the inferior courts of the United States.
Let us avert the day in which our Commonwealth shall become chiefly a school-house for the West, and a homestead over which time shall have drawn silently and too soon the marks of dilapidation.
He talked simply and strongly about the race that had made the Empire which to him was a commonwealth of neither trade nor conquest but of liberating ideas.
It was opposed to the whole super-Tory idea of a centralized British commonwealth of nations.
Now it is certain the institution of the true critics was of absolute necessity to the commonwealth of learning.
For the invention of the latter, I think the commonwealth of learning is chiefly obliged to the great modern improvement of digressions.
Four Commissioners of the Commonwealth were aboard, of whom that strong man Claiborne was one.
Cooke's Virginia (American Commonwealth Series, 1883) are written in lighter vein than the foregoing histories and possess much literary distinction.
In Virginia and in Maryland the Commonwealth and the Lord Protector stand where stood the Kingdom and the King.
Claiborne and Bennett assumed that they were yet Parliament Commissioners, empowered to bring "all plantations within the Bay of Chesapeake to their due obedience to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England.
He harangued and expounded Revelation always in favour of the Commonwealth and Presbyterianism, and against the Crown and the Mitre.
Under the Commonwealth he was not only mayor, but a great Presbyterian luminary.
Commonwealth would perhaps be the best rendering, but Realm will be used here as more convenient.
Moreover, it should prove as easy to extend a Soviet System or Council Commonwealth into the international relationship as it is difficult and dangerous to extend the principle of State Sovereignty and Parliamentary supremacy there.
Constitution establishes the Commonwealth as a Republic and assigns its sovereignty to the people.
