...no right to the crown ; and was departing from the great whig principle, that a king who endeavours to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between the king and people, and violating the fundamental laws, is deemed to have forfeited the crown ; which...

...January, 168Q, vis. " That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of this kingdom, by breaking the original contract between...fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, hath abdicated the government," &c.— makes this observation upon it: '' The word abdicated...

...rather too guarded, and too circumstantial.* But • " That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking...Jesuits and -other wicked persons, having violated 'he fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself all this guard, and all this accumulation of circumstances,...

...The lords and commons, solemnly assembled, declared, that " king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking...the original contract between king and people, and having violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself, had abdicated the government ; and that...

...the two Houses, declaring that James, having broken the original contract between king and people, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the throne, and that the throne was thereby vacant Nothing could be more creditable to...

...Commons passed by a great majority, the vote of abdications, *' That King James having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original contract between are ready to return (when safely we can) and to redress all the disorders of our kingdoms, in a free...

...emergency. The Commons had no difficulty in coming to the resolution, that " King James, having broken the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of wicked persons, violated the laws, and withdrawn himself from the kingdom, hath abdicated the government,...

...second in importance to any ever voted. The first was, — "That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the kingdom, by breaking...the original contract between King and people, and having by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, violated the fundamental laws, and withdrawn...

...their being convoked by the king. The commons declared, that a James, having attempted to overturn the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, having violated the fundamental laws, by the advice of Jesuits and other pernicious counsellors, and...

...this kingdom, hy hreaking the original contract hetween King and People, and hy the advice of Jesoits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, hath ahdicated the government," &c. — makes this ohservation upon it: " The word ahdicated...