A moment’s thought will show that Mary and Elizabeth could not both reign lawfully according to any doctrine of hereditary succession.
They were therefore driven, like the Yorkists at an earlier time, to patch up the theory of the divine right of hereditary succession, in order to justify an occupation of the throne which had nothing to justify it in English Law(46).
The hereditary succession can never exist as a matter of right; it is a nullity--a nothing.
The rule of hereditary succession' is affirmed in regard to normal holdings by this very exception.
In one of the manors of St. Paul of London the plots held by the ploughmen are said to be resumable by the lord without any injury to hereditary succession[354].
Those who for some reason had not actually joined in the contest were suffered to hold their lands under Norman lords, but with no claim to hereditary succession.
Bonaparte then said, "Hereditary succession is absurd.
If hereditary succession have no right but the people's consent; then of itself it can give none to a man that hath not that consent; but the former is true.
The third pretence of hereditary succession remains to be removed; which may be thus disproven, 1.
This act also incorporated, by the same policy, our liberties and an hereditary succession in the same act.
A system of caste, and the existence of hereditary succession, inevitably involve the idea of privileges.
He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.
We learn from St. Bernard that the abbots of Armagh were the representatives of a single family, and held office, as of right, by hereditary succession.
But a very evil custom had developed, by the devilish ambition of certain powerful persons, that the holy see[373] should be held by hereditary succession.
For my part, I gave my vote in favour of hereditary succession in Bonaparte's family; my situation, as may well be imagined, did not allow me to do otherwise.
To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity.
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