ler totalmente Law, Liberty and the Constitution (English Edition)

A new approach to the telling of legal history, devoid of jargon and
replete with good stories, which will be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about
the common law - the spinal cord of the English body politic.Throughout English history the
rule of law and the preservation of liberty have been inseparable, and both are intrinsic to
England's constitution. This accessible and entertaining history traces the growth of the
law from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It shows how the law
evolved from a means of ensuring order and limiting feuds to become a supremely
sophisticated dispenser of justice and the primary guardian of civil liberties.This
development owed much to the English kings and their judiciary, who, in the twelfth century,
forged a unified system of law - predating that of any other European country - from almost
wholly Anglo-Saxon elements. Yet by theseventeenth century this royal offspring - Oedipus
Lex it could be called - was capable of regicide. Since then the law has had a somewhat
fractious relationship with that institution upon which the regal mantle of supreme power
descended, Parliament. This book tells the story of the common law not merely by describing
major developments but by concentrating on prominent personalities and decisive cases
relating to the constitution, criminal jurisprudence, and civil liberties. It investigates
the great constitutional conflicts, the rise of advocacy, and curious and important cases
relating to slavery, insanity, obscenity, cannibalism, the death penalty, and miscarriages
of justice. The book concludes by examining the extension of the law into the prosecution of
war criminals and protection of universal human rights and the threats posed by
over-reaction to national emergencies and terrorism. Devoid ofjargon and replete with good
stories, Law, Liberty and the Constitution represents a new approach to the telling of legal
history and will be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about the common law - the
spinal cordof the English body politic. Harry Potter is a former fellow of Selwyn College,
Cambridge and a practising barrister specialising in criminal defence. He has authored books
on the death penalty and Scottish history andwrote and presented an award-winning series on
the history of the common law for the BBC.

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