The Common Law Mind

John pocock argues that the idea of an ancient constitution was exploded in the seventeenth century. The common law mind had a political value because it was used to combat claims to absolute sovereignty made by or on behalf of james, charles and fortis james. Both cook and bug come across as deeply political figures, both able and willing to use a misrepresentation of the constitution for their own campaigning purposes. Are they guilty of constitutional abuse? Should we think of them as perish the thought the re mogs of their hearers? Now let us not be naive. Let us not belive te te. We have here, in other s, another species of political rhetoric amounting