Mackintosh
historical figure · 1 work · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
James Mackintosh
in the texts
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Historian quoted on the natural origin and gradually limited power of Saxon chiefs and kings.
Mackintosh says:
Mackintosh says, “It was understood by the simplest of the unlettered age for whom it was intended.
Mackintosh says, “For almost five centuries (that is, until 1688) it (Magna Carta) was appealed to as the decisive authority on behalf of the people, though commonly so far only as the necessities of each case demanded.