Sentence examples for declaration of right from inspiring English sources
James fled to France, and the so-called Convention Parliament, summoned in January 1689, declared that James had abdicated and offered the vacant throne, with an accompanying Declaration of Right, to William and Mary.
Such, also, was the Declaration of Right presented by the Lords and Commons to the Prince of Orange in 1688, and afterwards thrown into the form of an act of parliament called the Bill of Rights.
The Act, which restated and confirmed many provisions of the earlier Declaration of Right, established restrictions on the royal prerogative.
On 13 February 1689, Parliament passed the Declaration of Right, in which it deemed that James, by attempting to flee on 11 December 1688, had abdicated the government of the realm, and that the Throne had thereby become vacant.
The Commons made William accept a Bill of Rights, and, on 13 February 1689, Parliament passed the Declaration of Right, in which it deemed that James, by attempting to flee, had abdicated the government of the realm, thereby leaving the throne vacant.
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An American helped draft the French Declaration of Rights.
Virginia Declaration of Rights, in U.S. constitutional history, declaration of rights of the citizen adopted June 12 , 1776 by the constitutional convention of the colony of Virginia.
In Paine's words "A Declaration of Rights, is, by reciprocity, a Declaration of Duties also.
