Englishmen
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English electors · English writers · a large body of Englishmen · the people of England · the persons subject to it
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The English people generally, whose changing opinions, sentiments, and enthusiasms are the subject of analysis throughout the passage.
The Advent in England of Parliamentary Democracy.
The Existence of Patent Facts which impress upon ordinary Englishmen the Interdependence of Edition:
When the last century came to an end belief in laissez faire had lost much of its hold on the people of England.
Ancient Law
English writers criticized for ignorance of Roman law and for asserting that Roman-era intellect had been paralysed.
It is a singular result of that ignorance of Roman law which Englishmen readily confess, and of which they are sometimes not ashamed to boast, that many English writers of note and credit have been led by it to put forward the most untenable of paradoxes concerning the condition of human intellect during the Roman empire.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The English people, cited for their comparative disinterest in collateral succession.
Englishmen are less interested in Collateral Succession than other peoples, and, indeed, it may be said in all succession by law, through their almost universal habit of determining the devolution of their property by marriage-settlements or wills.
Law in a Free State
A large portion of the English population inclined toward liberty but inconsistently drawn to socialism for particular purposes.
In addition to these believers in the gospel of liberty, there is a large body of Englishmen (possibly half the population) who are inclined in that direction, as most Englishmen have been since they deserved the name, and who, nevertheless, inconsistently appeal to socialism for the attainment of Edition: