De Republica Anglorum

1. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 2 authority 2 citations · 5 passages

   ch. 8 2 passages anchored here · ch. 9 3 passages anchored here

   Sir Thomas Smith is quoted as authority contrasting the civil-law judge with the English jury of twelve men.

   Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth, writing more than three hundred years after Magna Carta, in describing the difference between the Civil Law and the English Law, says:

2. The Genius of the Common Law Sir Frederick Pollock 1 authority 1 citation

   iv.: enemies in the gate

   Explicitly quoted and named as a competent witness to Tudor governance.

   Thus Sir Thomas Smith tells us of ‘the insolency of the noblemen and gentlemen of the north part of England, who being far from the king and the seat of justice made almost as it were an ordinary war among themselves’;

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