Sir James Mackintosh
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Mackintosh
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Scottish jurist and Whig politician listed among the English law reformers.
To the inquiry why the teaching of Bentham obtained from, say, 1825 onwards, ready acceptance among thoughtful Englishmen, the right reply, put in the most general terms, is, that when it became obvious to men of common sense and of public spirit that the law required thorough-going amendment, the reformers of the day felt the need of an ideal and of a programme.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Historian cited on the date of the first English-language parliamentary record.
Mackintosh says, “the first act of the House of Commons composed and recorded in the English tongue,” was in 1415, two centuries after Magna Carta.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Historian and philosopher, quoted for his eulogistic estimate of Magna Carta's authors in his History of England.
Sir James Mackintosh (History of England, I.