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2. Edmund Burke, quoted in H.T. Dickinson, ‘The Eighteenth-Century Debate on the Sovereignty of Parliament’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, 25 (1976), p. 199.
3. Gareth Jones (ed.), The Sovereignty of the Law: Selections from Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (London: Macmillan, 1973), pp.71–2;
4. J.G.A. Pocock, Politics, Language and Time (London: Methuen, 1972), p. 132.
5. Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), pp.49–50.