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2. R. Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), pp. 63–104; W. S. Holdsworth, A History of English Law, 17 vols (London: Methuen, 1903–1972), vol. 5, pp. 456–90.
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4. A. W. B. Simpson, Leading Cases in the Common Law (New York: Clarendon Press, 1995).
5. E. Coke, preface to Coke’s Reports, vol. 7, p. iii. See J. H. Kettner, The Development of American Citizenship, 1608–1870 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978), pp. 16–28;