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The Growth of the English Constitution

by Edward A. Freeman

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Epigraph

    ‘Igitur communitas regni consulatur,
Et quid universitas sentiat sciatur.’
        Political Poem, XIII. Cent.

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‘Concedis justas leges et consuetudines esse tenendas, et promittis eas per te esse protegendas et ad honorem Dei roborandas, quas vulgus elegerit secundum vires tuas?’

—Ancient Coronation Oath.

‘Rex habet superiorem, Deum. Item Legem, per quam factus est Rex. Item curiam suam.’

—Bracton.

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