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, “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.
And it was not until 1429, (as will be more fully shown hereafter,) when a truce between themselves, and a formal combination against the mass of the people, had been entered into, by the king, the nobility, and the “forty shilling freeholders,” (a class whom Mackintosh designates as “a few freeholders then accounted wealthy,”*) by the exclusion of all others than such freeholders from all voice i …