The Ancient Constitution And The Origins Of Anglo-American Liberty
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Author
Publication
2005-08-27 - Northern Illinois University Press
Language
English
Word Count
47,000 words, Guess
Page Count
188 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8089723M
- ISBN-139780875803425
- ISBN-100875803423
- OCLC Control Number57319569
- OCLC Control Numberancientconstitut0000reid
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004030007
- LibraryThing783482
- Goodreads710121
Classifications
- LCCKD3934.R45 2005
Description
"In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, English and American lawyers appealed to "the ancient constitution" as the cornerstone of liberty. According to this idea, constitutional law was not dictated by a monarch but based on the authority of custom, passed down unaltered from time immemorial. Legal historian John Phillip Reid demonstrates that this concept of an unchanging, ancient constitution furnished English common lawyers and parliamentarians an argument with which to combat royal prerogative power. At the same time, it provided American revolutionaries with legal arguments for rejecting the British parliament's effort to impose arbitrary rule upon the colonies."--BOOK JACKET.
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