The Constitutional History of England
William Stubbs
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 3 citations · 10 passages
Stubbs's Constitutional History is cited by name and abbreviation ('Const. Hist.') throughout, functioning as the principal authority engaged, sometimes in agreement and sometimes in dispute.
“It must be acknowledged that Hubert, in trying to bind the royal conscience, forsook the normal and primitive form of legislative enactment, and opened a claim on the king’s part to legislate by sovereign authority without counsel or consent.
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation
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150) that ‘the gesiths of an (English) king were his guard and private council,’ observes that the ‘free household servants of a ceorl are also in a certain sense his gesiths.
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