George Burton Adams
historical figure · 1 work · 7 mentions · 22 anchored passages
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in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
American historian, author of The Origin of the English Constitution, one of the most frequently cited modern authorities in this window.
Adams (Origin, 212), who has a suggestive note on “the diplomatic form of the Great Charter.
Adams, Origin, 256–7, who holds these changes to strengthen the theory “that in the original charter the barons intended to state the law accurately and were not trying to take unjust advantage of the King.
Adams, Origin, 250.