Author: Erskine, Thomas Title: Dissertation on the Origin of the English House of Commons, delivered before the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1777 to which the first Prize of the Year was adjudged
Description: London Annual Register 1798. Nine pages (pp 443-441), disbound, else very clean with good margins. ¶ A printing of Erskine's first public statement of the history and principles of English law to govern his entire life and career, with a significant reliance on Magna Carta, warning that the law's hallowed principles must be observed in reality
Keywords: English constitutional law Parliament Magna Carta
Price: US$ 250.00 Seller: Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.
- Book number: 80391