The ancient constitution and the origins of Anglo-American liberty
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0875803423
ISBN 13
9780875803425
LCCN
KD 3934 .R45
DDC
342.4102
Category
Comparative Study
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
188 pages
Subject
Comparative Study
Abstract
"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."--Jacket.
Description
Content:
Forensic History -- The Legal Perspective -- The Advocacy of Lawyers -- Uses of the Ancient Constitution -- The Authority of the Past -- The Theory of the Past -- The Advocacy of the Past -- Waging Forensic History -- Forensic Techniques of Ancient Constitutionalism -- Forensic Techniques of Timeless Constitutionalism -- The Forensic History of Gothicism and Saxonism -- The Forensic History of Norman Conquest -- The Eighteenth-Century Conquest -- The Evidence of Conquest -- The Unrevolutionary Revolution -- The Forensic History of Reform -- Forensic History of Magna Carta -- Forensic History of the New Jurisprudence -- The Forensic History of Liberty.
Forensic History -- The Legal Perspective -- The Advocacy of Lawyers -- Uses of the Ancient Constitution -- The Authority of the Past -- The Theory of the Past -- The Advocacy of the Past -- Waging Forensic History -- Forensic Techniques of Ancient Constitutionalism -- Forensic Techniques of Timeless Constitutionalism -- The Forensic History of Gothicism and Saxonism -- The Forensic History of Norman Conquest -- The Eighteenth-Century Conquest -- The Evidence of Conquest -- The Unrevolutionary Revolution -- The Forensic History of Reform -- Forensic History of Magna Carta -- Forensic History of the New Jurisprudence -- The Forensic History of Liberty.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (125) and index.
Donated by Graham Price.
Donated by Graham Price.
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