The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American RevolutionInstitute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1965 - Biography & Autobiography - 247 pages Examines the historical justification for American independence in the writings of the seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers and historians. |
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Page 36
... Magna Charta of 1215 emerging as the most important of such measures of restitution . The best - selling Rapin served well in this respect . He reviewed the background of Magna Charta in his detailed History of England and added a ...
... Magna Charta of 1215 emerging as the most important of such measures of restitution . The best - selling Rapin served well in this respect . He reviewed the background of Magna Charta in his detailed History of England and added a ...
Page 37
... Magna Charta could not and did not give anything to the people , " who in themselves had all . " The chief merit of the document was bringing John to admit that there were popular rights " perpetually inherent , and time out of mind ...
... Magna Charta could not and did not give anything to the people , " who in themselves had all . " The chief merit of the document was bringing John to admit that there were popular rights " perpetually inherent , and time out of mind ...
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... magna charta . " Such was the fate , Rapin commented , of Edward II and Richard II . English monarchs acquired sweeping obligations : since Magna Charta was , as Lord Somers de- clared , only " an Abridgement of our antient Laws and ...
... magna charta . " Such was the fate , Rapin commented , of Edward II and Richard II . English monarchs acquired sweeping obligations : since Magna Charta was , as Lord Somers de- clared , only " an Abridgement of our antient Laws and ...
Contents
ANCIENT AND MEDI | 21 |
TUDORS STUARTS | 40 |
THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL CONSCIENCE | 59 |
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