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Item #65148 Law, Political Thought, and the Ancient Constitution: A Case Study of. Erin Rahne Kidwell, George Saltern.
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Law, Political Thought, and the Ancient Constitution: A Case Study of
Law, Political Thought, and the Ancient Constitution: A Case Study of
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Law, Political Thought, and the Ancient Constitution: A Case Study of

Law, Political Thought, and the Ancient Constitution: A Case Study of

Kidwell, Erin Rahne. Law, Political Thought, and the Ancient Constitution: A Case Study of George Saltern's Of the Antient Lawes of Great Britaine. xviii, 330 pp. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing (an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.), 2016. ISBN-13: 9781616195397. ISBN-10: 1616195398. Hardcover. New. $75. * The blending of myth and legal history evident in the body of literary and legal texts produced to debate the 1604 union proposals of James VI and I illustrates the seamless nature of the legal and literary canons at a formative moment in the history of British-American constitutionalism. This case study focuses on one of the lesser known Union Tracts, George Saltern's 1605 Of the Antient Lawes of Great Britaine in conjunction with examples from various union tracts and contemporaneous works in British history, Calvin's Case and other judicial opinions, and works of British-American political thought to illustrate and evaluate the creative mix of mythical and historical elements present in the juridical historiography of the ancient constitution. King James's proposed 'restitution' of a realm that never existed--the unified realm of Great Britain--could only have been defended through such a blend of literary myth, history, and legal precedents. Furthermore, tracing the juridical historiography of ancient constitutionalism over the following centuries reveals the surprising extent to which ancient constitutionalist thought has continued to influence the development of Anglo-American constitutionalism to the present day - most significantly so in the jurisprudence and political thought of American Originalism. "This is a valuable study in the mythology necessary to medieval and early modern constitutionalism and the political thought arising from it." -- J.G.A. Pocock, P.E., Johns Hopkins University, author of The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law. Erin Rahne Kidwell, J.D. Cum Laude, Capital University Law School, LL.M. and S.J.D., Georgetown Law School, was the Curator of Legal History Collections at Georgetown Law Library and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law. In 2015 she was the Academic Advisor to the 2016 Folger Library exhibit Age of Lawyers: the Roots of American Law in Shakespeare's Britain. She retired in 2016 and is now an independent scholar.

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