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Sir Edward Coke -- A Freethinker Before His Time
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"God has endowed His Majesty with excellent science and great endowments of nature, but His Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England, and causes which concern the life, or inheritance, or goods or fortunes of his subjects are not to be decided by natural reason, but by artificial reason and judgement of law..." Prohibitions del Roy, 1607.
Never before and perhaps never since has the freedom from religion been so succinctly defined as by the great English Chief Justic...
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Towards a common law originalism.
Stanford Law Review
; INTRODUCTION I. ORIGINALISTS' TAKE ON THE COMMON LAW II. THE COMMON LAW: A DISUNIFIED FIELD III. THE HISTORY OF THE COMMON LAW AS THE THEORY OF THE COMMON LAW IV. A COMMON LAW ORIGINALISM CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION The specter of constitutional originalism, an approach once characterized as dead,
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Sir Edward Coke -- A Freethinker Before His Time
Freethought Today
; "God has endowed His Majesty with excellent science and great endowments of nature, but His Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England, and causes which concern the life, or inheritance, or goods or fortunes of his subjects are not to be decided by natural reason, but by artificial
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Common sense and common law.(Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism)(Book Review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; ... principles, welfare maximization, and high political purposes. James R. Stoner, Jr., a political scientist, has some shocking news for those holding this conventional view. The common law, he says, is neither superstitious nor gone; indeed, if we would open ...
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F. A. Hayek and the common law.
The Cato Journal
; One of the most significant insights into the history of Anglo-American law offered by F. A. Hayek concerns the superiority of common over statute law in framing a free society. Hayek's Legal Theory English common law, like much medieval law, Hayek maintained, reflected the underlying notion that
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An unconvincing defense.(COMMENTS)(Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism)(Book review)
Modern Age
; COMMON-LAW LIBERTY: Rethinking American Constitutionalism, by James R. Stoner, Jr., is a short book of essays, half of which were previously published, that is guided by the best intentions. Professor Stoner defends the reasonableness and the traditionalism of the common law in opposition to
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The rise and fall of efficiency in the common law: A supply-side analysis
Northwestern University Law Review
; I. INTRODUCTION From its inception, an animating insight of the economic analysis of law has been the observation that the common law process appears to have a strong tendency to produce efficiency-enhancing legal rules.1 But many recent commentators have also concluded that recent decades have
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A JUDICIAL TRADITIONALIST CONFRONTS THE COMMON LAW
Texas Review of Law & Politics
; I. THE COMMON-LAW TRADITION AS CAUSE FOR ANXIETY I consider myself a disciplined judicial traditionalist. This means, in short, that I view my role as a jurist through the lens of three fundamental principles. The first is respect for the republican form of government assured to us by Article IV,
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Sir Edward Heath dies at 89
The Scotsman
; ... about 3pm. A spokesman for Sir Edward gave few details about his medical condition but left little doubt the outlook was bleak. News of his death followed at 9pm. "Sir Edward Heath, who celebrated his 89th birthday with a party at his home in Salisbury a week ...
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Let legal system be based on Malaysian common law
New Straits Times
; Let legal system be based on Malaysian common law Byline: Harun Hashim Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2* Section: Editorial Column: Benchmark THERE appears to be a persistent misunderstanding of what the common law is. True, it refers to a system of law which was originated and developed in England,
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The Saturday Interview: Sir Edward Crew - Trusting in a force for good.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; ... diffidence at having being bestowed with such a title. He's been bombarded with letters and emails from all over the world since the news broke and seems a little overwhelmed by the attention. 'When I leave the police, I will need to do something ordinary, as a return ...
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