Sentence examples for king subject from inspiring English sources

Generally, a king subject to an overlord such as Æthelbald would still be regarded as a king, but would have his independence curtailed in some respects.

Magna Carta, it was argued, recognised and protected the liberty of individual Englishmen, made the king subject to the common law of the land, formed the origin of the trial by jury system, and acknowledged the ancient origins of Parliament: because of Magna Carta and this ancient constitution, an English monarch was unable to alter these long-standing English customs.

The eastern part of Armenia where Etchmiadzin was located remained under the rule of Armenian vassal kings subject to Persia until 428, when the Armenian Kingdom was dissolved.

In 2015 it will be 800 years since King John put his seal on the Magna Carta, the document which first established the king was subject to the law.

Was usage king or subject?

"Their king was subject to a greater force than history," Mr. Bromell writes.

"Their king was subject to the law of inertia, about which young people know nothing".

The dismissal by James I of Edward Coke, the Chief Justice, for having suggested that the king was subject to the law, rather than the other way round, brought matters to a head.

For the first time Magna Carta established publicly the principle that the king was subject to the law.

Like a series of paintings, the emotion of the common bond of king and subject resonated in the faces of the assembled.

Thomas Jefferson who drafted the U.S. Declaration of Independence was inspired by the English Magna Carta, which established that every person, including the king was subject to the law, and was adopted 560 years earlier.