“Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.”

— Edward Coke

Speech https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/coke-selected-writings-of-sir-edward-coke-vol-iii#lf0462-03_head_079 to the committee of the House of Commons (20 May 1628)

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English lawyer and judge 1552–1634

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