The Ancient Constitution: And the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty

ISBN-13: 9780875803425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 196 str.

John Phillip Reid

Opis

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, English and American lawyers appealed to the ancient constitution as the cornerstone of liberty. The author demonstrates that this concept of an unchanging, ancient constitution, furnished English common lawyers and parliamentarians an argument with which to combat royal prerogative power.