Clarendon, Constitutions of
Clarendon, Constitutions of (1164) Sixteen articles issued by
Henry II of England to limit the temporal and judicial powers of the Church. The most controversial article required clergy who had been convicted in church courts to be punished by royal courts. They played a significant role in the dispute between Henry and Thomas à
Becket.
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Monarch and monarchy: the Queen at seventy. (Queen Elizabeth II of England)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...s understanding of his own constitution is pathetically limited...the executive of the British Constitution? Do they mean the work and...Bogdanor's The Monarchy and the Constitution (Clarendon Press, Oxford. [pounds...
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Murder in the Cathedral.
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...a written affirmation of the validity of the Constitutions of Clarendon. He had also abandoned his insistence that Becket...abandoned his ultimate objective of having the Constitutions recognised, with all that entailed in terms...
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Thomas Becket and His Biographers
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the position had to be relinquished. At a time when the customs of the king's ancestors, codified in the Constitutions of Clarendon, were the subject of debate, the king was unlikely to have objected.The importance of the office of chancellor...
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The unmaking of a saint: Thomas Becket and the English reformation
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...chancellorship, to the king's great regret. The conflict heated up considerably in 1164 when Henry issued "The Constitutions of Clarendon," which were said to contain "recognized customs and rights of the kingdom."9 Among the sixteen articles...
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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1998; 700+ words
; ...the 1976 preface to his much respected study of Clarendon. There he suggested that two figures of the...transition from a Baconian to a Clarendonian constitution - Bacon and Clarendon, both men of the law and of letters, readers...
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Judicial Assistance Extended.(history of Channel Islands (United Kingdom))
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing; 9/26/2002; 700+ words
; ...Oxford Companion to Law, David M. Walker, 1980, Clarendon Constitution of the Channel Islands Jersey and the other Channel...of kind. The Place of the Privy Council in the Constitution of Jersey The Privy Council is in direct line of...
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Key question: Is apartheid crime . . . or sickness?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/30/1987; 700+ words
; ...dangerous a time to even consider revising or amending our national Constitution. Our Constitution was written not during the Revolution, but after! William E. Mund, Clarendon Hills Hit nail on head Zay Smith's April 19 column regarding the...
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Letter vilifying Obama should not have run in Doings
Newspaper article from: Doings, The (Clarendon Hills, IL); 10/30/2008; 462 words
; CLARENDON HILLS -- I firmly believe in the First Amendment of the Constitution and the right of people to express their opinions, even if we may not agree with that opinion. However, in reading the letter...
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Hub sparkles with history.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 7/3/1998; 700+ words
; ...parade. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. - Constitution turn-around cruises: A.C...Castle Island, South Boston. USS Constitution fires her cannons. 8:30-10...John Hancock Observatory, 200 Clarendon St., 60th floor, (617) 247...
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Aristotle Politics: Books V and VI. (book review)
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...This book completes the Clarendon Aristotle Series edition...doing this volume in the Clarendon Aristotle Series with John...excellent addition to the Clarendon Aristotle Series. Besides...books on less-than-ideal constitutions compose a single unit organized...species and sub-species of ...
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Constitutions of Clarendon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Constitutions of Clarendon 1164, articles issued by King Henry II of England at the Council of Clarendon defining the customs governing relations...prelates assented to the Constitutions at Clarendon, but after the pope had condemned...
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Clarendon, Constitutions of
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
CLARENDON, CONSTITUTIONS OF Statutes — enacted by a parliament convened at Clarendon, England, in 1164 during the reign...king's court. The Constitutions of Clarendon limited the jurisdiction that ecclesiastical...
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Clarendon, constitutions of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Clarendon, constitutions of. A written statement of Henry...at a council held at the palace of Clarendon in January 1164 in an attempt to...good faith, but since some of the constitutions, including one perceived as undermining...
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Clarendon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...as the new printing-house (Lord Clarendon (1609–74) was Chancellor...verses in honour of Queen Anne. Constitutions of Clarendon a body of propositions drawn up at the Council of Clarendon in the reign of Henry II (1164...
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Clarendon palace
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Clarendon palace. Two miles east of Salisbury, the palace began in William...converted by Henry II into a major royal residence. In 1164 when the constitutions of Clarendon were promulgated, fourteen bishops were in attendance. The palace...
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