Public opinion
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The currents of collective sentiment and conviction which, in Dicey's account, drive and explain the development of English legislation.
The aim of this Introduction is to trace the connection, during these opening years of the twentieth century, between the development of English law and the course of English opinion.
It occurred to me that this duty might best be performed by tracing out the relation during the last hundred years between the progress of English law and the course of public opinion in England.
It is an attempt to follow out the connection or relation between a century of English legislation and successive currents of opinion.