Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John / With an Historical Introduction

by William Sharp McKechnie

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[203]. Gneist, Hist. of Engl. Parl. (trans. by A. H. Keane), 103. Cf. his Const. Hist. (trans. by P. A. Ashworth), 253. “A separate right for nobles, citizens, and peasants, was no longer possible.”

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