In the parliamentary speech on the ex officio proceedings delivered in 1593 by James Morice, a prominent Elizabethan common lawyer, there appeared an original interpretation of the relationship between the royal prerogative and the law. Morice's speech, aimed at declaring illegal the ex officio oath, resulted from the strengthening of the authority of the monarchy and state in the late 16th century, a distinctive feature of the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign. The oath was imposed in particular by the court of high commission for causes ecclesiastical, whose judges received their powers from the crown by means of letters patent. In order to achieve his objective, Morice introduced two bills in the attempt to curb the abuses of the ecclesiastical judges through legislation, one of the ordinary prerogatives. In parliament, he deployed powerful legal and political arguments to move the queen to protect and guarantee the subjects’ rights by virtue of the royal prerogative. The exercise of the prerogative in the last decade of the Elizabethan reign is a key to understanding the transformation in governmentality that caused Morice's parliamentary action, which anticipates the strategies later enacted by common lawyers – most notably Edward Coke – in reaction to the expanding authority of the English state and monarchy.

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1593 年英国议会中立宪主义的语言和皇家特权：詹姆斯·莫里斯 (James Morice) 关于当然程序的演讲及其宪法思想

1593 年，伊丽莎白时代著名的普通律师詹姆斯·莫里斯 (James Morice) 就当然程序发表的议会演讲中，出现了对王室特权与法律之间关系的独创性解释。莫里斯的演讲旨在宣布当然誓言为非法，这是 16 世纪后期君主制和国家权威加强的结果，这是伊丽莎白一世统治最后十年的一个显着特征。宣誓特别是由教会事务高级委员会法院强制执行的，其法官通过专利证书从王室获得权力。为了实现他的目标，莫里斯提出了两项​​法案，试图通过立法来遏制教会法官的滥用职权，这是一项普通特权。在议会中，他动用了强有力的法律和政治论据，促使女王凭借王室特权保护和保障臣民的权利。在伊丽莎白统治的最后十年中行使特权是理解导致莫里斯议会行动的政府转变的关键，它预测了后来由普通律师（最着名的是爱德华·科克）制定的策略，以应对不断扩大的权力英国国家和君主制。