Popular Law-making: A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute

Stimson, Frederic Jesup · 1943

"NOW, MY LORD, I DO THINK, THAT PRACTICE AND USAGE IS A GREAT EVIDENCE OF THE LAW."--CHIEF JUSTICE HOLT, IN "THE GREAT CASE OF MONOPOLIES."--7 STATE TRIALS, 497 Proper Field of Legislation; Meaning of the Word "Law,"; Modern Importance of Statute Law; Representative Government and the Right to Law; Enforcement of the Common Law; Origin of Representative Legislatures; Customary or Natural Law; No Sanction Necessary; The Unwritten Law and Outlawry; Early Parliament Merely Judicial; Contrast of Common Law with Roman Law; Theory that the King Makes Law; Parliament Retains the Right to Tax; Parliament Recovers Legislative Powers.…

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