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Popular Law-making

by Frederic Jesup Stimson

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Proper Field of Legislation; Meaning of the Word “Law,”; Modern
    Importance of Statute Law; Representative Government and the Right
    to Law; Enforcement of the Common Law; Origin of Representative
    Legislatures; Customary or Natural Law; No Sanction Necessary;
    The Unwritten Law and Outlawry; Early Parliament Merely Judicial;
    Contrast of Common Law with Roman Law; Theory that the King Makes
    Law; Parliament Retains the Right to Tax; Parliament Recovers
    Legislative Powers.

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