• The Articles Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland – often known as the Declaratory Articles - were drawn up early in the 20th century...
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    Retrieved 29 March 2024. "Articles Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland". The Church of Scotland. Archived from the original on 19 March...
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    legal recognition to the Articles Declaratory. The Church of Scotland was founded as a Presbyterian church in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation since...
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    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...
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    Article 1, of the Articles Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland 1921 states 'The Church of Scotland adheres to the Scottish Reformation'...
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  • churches' continuing adherence to the "Catholic" doctrine of the early Church Councils. The Articles Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of...
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    Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland (1889), the Free Church of Scotland passed a Declaratory Act on 26 May 1892 relaxing the stringency of subscription...
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    Article 1, of the Articles Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland 1921 states 'The Church of Scotland adheres to the Scottish Reformation'...
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  • Article 1, of the Articles Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland 1921 states 'The Church of Scotland adheres to the Scottish Reformation'...
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    The Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish denomination which was formed in 1843 by a large withdrawal from the established Church of Scotland in a schism...
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    approved the Constitution or not. In addition, some historians include signers of the Articles of Confederation, which was adopted in 1781 as the nation's...
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  • Article 1 of the Articles Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland, defining the trinitarian nature of the Christian faith and the "catholicity"...
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    Parliament of Scotland. For acts passed from 1707 to 1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. See also the list of acts of the Parliament...
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    "subordinate standard" of doctrine in the Church of Scotland and has been influential within Presbyterian churches worldwide. In 1643, the English Parliament...
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    predecessor to the contemporary Presbyterian Church (USA). The denomination originated in colonial times when members of the Church of Scotland and Presbyterians...
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    jurists regarded the bill not as positive law but as declaratory of the common law, and as such applicable to Ireland. The Constitution of the Irish Free State...
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    its declaratory power to do so. The Cabinet Secretary for Justice is the member of the Scottish Government responsible for Police Scotland, the courts...
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    Poynings' Law, the Declaratory Act became a symbol of the subservience of the Parliament of Ireland, and its repeal was long an aim of Irish statesmen...
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  • Man and of the Citizen – Declaration of trust – Declaration of war – Declaration of war by the United States – Declaratory judgment – Declaratory relief –...
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    the Acts of Union 1707, which united the kingdoms of England (including Wales) and Scotland to form a single kingdom encompassing the whole island of...
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  • also came under attack and the Declaratory Act 1720 made the Irish parliament a dependency. The so-called Constitution of 1782 removed British parliamentary...
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  • Donald Macdonald (minister) (category Ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland)
    the constitution of the Free Church in law. Macdonald was born at Langash in the parish of North Uist in 1825. He became the Free Church of Scotland minister...
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    it. The Irish House of Lords regarded itself as the final court of appeal for Ireland, but the British Declaratory Act of 1719 asserted the right of further...
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  • Catholic Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur against the Government of Malaysia at the High Court of Malaya to seek a declaratory relief that the word "Allah" should...
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    and Additions: The Writing and Publicizing of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States...
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    founded the Bank of New York. In 1786, Hamilton led the Annapolis Convention to replace the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution of the United...
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    right of the Lords in Westminster to overrule the Irish Lords. The Irish Patriot Party secured the repeal of the Declaratory Act as part of the Constitution...
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    repealed the tax on February 21, 1766, but they insisted in the Declaratory Act of March 1766 that they retained full power to make laws for the colonies...
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  • Subordinate standard (category Reformed confessions of faith)
    read in the light of a Declaratory Statement of 1901. The Presbyterian Church of Victoria, one of its constituent bodies, also subscribes to the "general...
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    Common law (redirect from The common law)
    Blackstone's declaratory theory of common law was near universal for centuries. Many notable writers eventually adopted the modern definition of common law...
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