A92147:1329
A treatise of civil policy
A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and privilege, in reference to the supreme prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divinity of St Andrews in Scotland.A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and priviledge, in reference to the supream prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divintiy of St Andrews in Scotland.
London, : Printed and are to be sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard near the West end., 1657 i.e. 1656
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When Maccolumbus the 92. King would have admitted a Treaty to the hurt of the Kingdom; the Nobles said, Non jus esse Regi, the King had no right to take any thing from the Kingdom, Nisi omnibus Ordinibus consentientibus. In the time of Alexander the 94. K. is ordained, Acta regis oporteri confirmari decreto ordinum regni, quia ordinibus regni non consultis, aut adversantibus, nihil quod ad totius regnistatum attinet, Regi agere liceret. So all our Historians observe, by which it is clear, that the Parliament, not the King hath a negative voice.
When Maccolumbus the 92. King would have admitted a Treaty to the hurt of the Kingdome; the Nobles said, Non jus esse Regi, the King had no right to take any thing from the Kingdome, Nisi omnibus Ordinibus consentientibus. In the time of Alexander the 94. K. is ordained, Acta regis oporteri confirmari decreto ordinum regni, quia ordinibus regni non consultis, aut adversantibus, nihil quod ad totius regnistatum attinet, Regi agere liceret. So all our Historians observe, by which it is cleare, that the Parliament, not the King hath a negative voyce.
The States answer to K. Edwards Legates concerning Balzees conditions in his contest with Bruce is, That these conditions were made a solo Rege, by the King only, without the estates of the Kingdom, and therefore they did not oblige the Kingdom.
The States answer to K. Edwards Legates concerning Balzees conditions in his contest with Bruce is, That these conditions were made a solo Rege, by the King only, without the estates of the Kingdome, and therefore they did not oblige the Kingdome.
In Robert the Bruce his Reign, the K. 97. the succession to the1