
Rule of Law
John Phillip Reid
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And the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty
Northern Illinois University Press
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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.
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