Comments on: Medieval Origins of Anglospheric Freedom http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3721.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Thu, 24 May 2012 18:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mitch http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3721.html/comment-page-1#comment-16705 Mitch Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:38:51 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003721.php#comment-16705 By happy coincidence, today's A&L Daily points to <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=6&debateId=28&articleId=2980" rel="nofollow">this</a> article on how the British came to establish the subordination of the king to the law. The next step was the Glorious Revolution, where the removal of a king was accomplished without killing him, and his successors implicitly agreed to the limits of their power. By happy coincidence, today’s A&L Daily points to this article on how the British came to establish the subordination of the king to the law. The next step was the Glorious Revolution, where the removal of a king was accomplished without killing him, and his successors implicitly agreed to the limits of their power.

]]> By: Robert Schwartz http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3721.html/comment-page-1#comment-16704 Robert Schwartz Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:37:37 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003721.php#comment-16704 " the Renaissance ideas of kingship and related institutional changes almost destroyed it. " I'll bite. No, they absolutist idea comes from Rome and is propogated by the civilians (the students of Roman Law) who began studying Justinian's code in the 12th century. England is a place where the roman law never took root. ” the Renaissance ideas of kingship and related institutional changes almost destroyed it. ”

I’ll bite. No, they absolutist idea comes from Rome and is propogated by the civilians (the students of Roman Law) who began studying Justinian’s code in the 12th century. England is a place where the roman law never took root.

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