The Law of the Land
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Excerpt from The Law of the Land: Minister Phelps Address at Edinburgh, November 12, 1886 In the Magna Charta of King John appears a phrase, the most significant expression in its most celebrated clause, familiar now, unknown till then, per legem terroe - "by the law of the land." It indicates there at once the criterion and the bulwark of the liberties of Englishmen. And with its context introduces for the first time into the theory of civil government, and crystallizes into language not destined to perish, the idea long moulding and shaping in the unlettered Saxon mind, that human rights are the foundation and not the concession of human authority. Whose phrase it was, we do not know. It was inscribed there by a forgotten hand. It has not been rare in the growth of the English tongue that some new form of words, struck as this was out of the heat of critical time, and compressing as this does a great thought into small compass, has entered for once and for always into the general speech of men. But it is the meaning rather than the origin of the words I have quoted from the Great Charter that I desire to consider. They are repeated oftener than they are understood. It may be useful, possibly, in this day of many novelties, to recur to their original significance, and to trace their relation to the political fabric which is the common inheritance of all our race. I ask your attention, therefore, to some observations, of necessity very general and very brief, upon "The Law of the Land." The term is often made use of in a vague way, as including all the law which has force or is administered in the country. I do not so understand it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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