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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I Magna Carta, Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights in England; 1 Magna Carta: The Emergence of the Myth; 2 From Magna Carta to the Abridgements: The Naturalization of Benefit of Clergy; 3 How to Get Rid of a King: Lawyering the Revolution of 1399; 4 Illuminating Magna Carta: Images of Law and Authority in Medieval Statute Books; 5 Revolution Principles and the Revolution Bench; Part II Broader Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights in England |
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6 Magna Carta Chapters 4 and 5 and the Origins of Accountability7 Some Effects of War on the Law in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England; 8 The Impact of Tax on the Landscape: Social Expectations and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century England; Part III Magna Carta, Challenges to Authority and the Recognition (and Rejection) of Rights beyond England; 9 Magna Carta in the German Discourse about English Constitutional Law between the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries |
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10 Magna Carta for the World?: The Constitutional Protection of Foreign Merchants in the Age of Revolution11 'The Protection of Our Laws': The Slave, Grace and the Rise of Proslavery Constitutionalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World; 12 The Royal Proclamation of 1763 in British Columbia: An Indigenous Magna Carta's Chequered Canadian Career; 13 Rights and Power in Nineteenth-Century India: Exploring an Unstable Relationship; 14 When 'Magna Carta Was Suspended': National Security and the Challenge to Freedom of Speech in Australia, 1914-1919; Index |
| Summary |
A unique volume demonstrating how law changes by reason of challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Magna Carta -- Congresses
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Magna Carta fast |
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Rule of law -- England -- History
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Constitutional history -- England -- Sources
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Constitutional history
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Rule of law
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
MacMillan, Catharine, editor.
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Smith, Charlotte (Charlotte Louise), editor.
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British Legal History Conference (22nd : 2015 : Reading, England). organizing body
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| ISBN |
9781108554336 |
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1108554334 |
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9781108561365 |
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1108561365 |
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1108453368 |
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9781108453363 |
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