文档介绍：The Roots
of Liberty
The Roots
of Liberty
Magna Carta, Ancient
Constitution, and the
Anglo-American Tradition
of Rule of Law
Edited and with an
Introduction by Ellis Sandoz
Liberty Fund
Indianapolis
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© 1993 Liberty Fund, Inc.
Originally published in 1993 by the Curators of the University of Missouri,
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 65201.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The roots of liberty: Magna Carta, ancient constitution, and the Anglo-
American tradition of rule of law/edited and with an introduction by
Ellis Sandoz.
p. cm.
Originally published: Columbia: University of Missouri Press, c1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-86597-709-9 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Rule of law—England—History. 2. Constitutional history—
England. I. Sandoz, Ellis, 1931–
KD3995 .R66 2008
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The editor offers grateful acknowledgment to Liberty Fund, Inc.,
for support of the symposium which occasioned the inquiry
precipitating the contents of this book in initial draft. The editor
also acknowledges with thanks permission to quote from Sir John
Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae, translated and edited by
S. B. Chrimes, © 1942 Cambridge University Press. Excerpts from
the Engl