The Proclamations of the Tudor Queens (; Study)
Title | The Proclamations of the Tudor Queens (; Study) PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1976 |
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The Proclamations of the Tudor Queens. (1. Publ.)
Title | The Proclamations of the Tudor Queens. (1. Publ.) PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic A. Yourgs (Jr.) |
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Pages | 277 |
Release | 1976 |
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The Proclamations of the Tudor Queens
Title | The Proclamations of the Tudor Queens PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic A. Youngs |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1976-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521210447 |
This study investigates the independent prerogative which Mary I and Elizabeth I exercised through royal proclamations. These public documents were announced throughout England, informing men and arguing the Queen's positions, commanding local officials to perform specific actions, and on occasion creating new but temporary law that was designed to meet crisis situation when no delay could be tolerated. The theoretical relationship between this prerogative power and the existing statutory law has been the subject of much debate. This study adds an element previously neglected, the investigation of the Queens' actual use of the proclamations, showing that they did innovate with vigour and legislate in them, but only to supplement and not supplant the law, and within the limits slowly being formulated in the sixteenth century. Professor Youngs demonstrates how the proclamations affected domestic security and foreign affairs, social and economic matters, and religion.
Tudor royal proclamations, vol.1
Title | Tudor royal proclamations, vol.1 PDF eBook |
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Release | 1964 |
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A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns and of Others Published Under Authority, 1485-1714: pt. 1. Ireland. pt. 2. Scotland
Title | A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns and of Others Published Under Authority, 1485-1714: pt. 1. Ireland. pt. 2. Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford |
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Pages | 680 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Broadsides |
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The Proclamations of the Tudor Kings
Title | The Proclamations of the Tudor Kings PDF eBook |
Author | R. W. Heinze |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1976-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521209380 |
Royal proclamations were an important instrument of Tudor government and their legislative function has long been a subject of historical controversy, but the actual use of them by the Tudor monarchs has not been adequately studied. The main purpose of this book is to provide a systematic analysis of the use, authority and enforcement of proclamations in early Tudor England. Professor Heinze first attempts to establish a more accurate account of the proclamations issued; and then describes their formulation and promulgation. He also investigates the authority of proclamations as defined by Parliament and the role and power attributed to them by Tudor judges and legal writers. The main body of the study traces the actual use of proclamations and their relationship to statutory and common law. Separate chapters are devoted to the controversial Statute of Proclamations and the long neglected subject of enforcement.
The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech
Title | The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Wendell Bird |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020-02-28 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0197509207 |
This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act. The conventional view of the history of freedoms of press and speech is that the common law since antiquity defined those freedoms narrowly, and that Sir William Blackstone in 1769, and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield in 1770, faithfully summarized the common law in giving a very narrow definition of those freedoms as mere liberty from prior restraint and not liberty from punishment after something was printed or spoken. This book proposes, to the contrary, that Blackstone carefully selected the narrowest definition that had been suggested in popular essays in the prior seventy years, in order to oppose the growing claims for much broader protections of press and speech. Blackstone misdescribed his summary as an accepted common law definition, which in fact did not exist. A year later, Mansfield inserted a similar definition into the common law for the first time, also misdescribing it as a long-accepted definition, and soon misdescribed the unique rules for prosecuting sedition as having an equally ancient pedigree. Blackstone and Mansfield were not declaring the law as it had long been, but were leading a counter-revolution about the breadth of freedoms of press and speech, and cloaking it as a summary of a narrow common law doctrine that in fact was nonexistent. That conflict of revolutionary view and counter-revolutionary view continues today. For over a century, a neo-Blackstonian view has been dominant, or at least very influential, among historians. Contrary to those narrow claims, this book concludes that the broad understanding of freedoms of press and speech was the dominant context of the First Amendment and of Fox's Libel Act, and that it enjoyed greater historical support.