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  • 8 - A European Perspective

  • Edited by Peter Cane, Christ's College, Cambridge and Australian National University, H. Kumarasingham, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
    Published online:
    12 August 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023, pp 187-206

  • Summary

    The conviction that England’s legal and constitutional histories were substantially different than those of other European countries is relatively widespread. To substantiate this claim, many turn their attention to the seventeenth century, which they identify as a pivotal moment in this parting of ways. According to this portrait, it was during this period that a particular English understanding of law, a ‘common-law mind’, emerged, greatly enabling, among other things, important constitutional developments.1