The roots of liberty : Magna Carta, ancient constitution, and the Anglo-American tradition of rule of law

Folger bibliographic ID: 216546
Folger call number: KD3995 .R66 2008
Folger holdings ID: 243998

Edition

[Liberty Fund ed.]

General notes

Originally published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1993 Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Editor's introduction : Fortescue, Coke, and Anglo-American constitutionalism / Ellis Sandoz -- The ancient constitution in medieval England / J.C. Holt -- The place of Magna Carta and the ancient constitution in sixteenth-century English legal thought / Christopher W. Brooks -- Ancient constitutions in the age of Sir Edward Coke and John Selden / Paul Christianson -- The jurisprudence of liberty : the ancent constitution in the legal historiography of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John Phillip Reid -- Epilogue : diverse viewpoints on ancient constitutionalism / Corinne Comstock Weston

Extended title: The roots of liberty : Magna Carta, ancient constitution, and the Anglo-American tradition of rule of law / edited and with an introduction by Ellis Sandoz

Rule of law Constitutional history

associated with: Sandoz, Ellis, 1931-