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ISBN-13: 9781616195397. ISBN-10: 1616195398. Kidwell, Erin Rahne. Law, Political Thought, and the Ancient Constitution: A Case Study of George Saltern's Of the Antient Lawes of Great Britaine. xviii, 330 pp. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing (an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.), 2016. ISBN-13: 9781616195397. ISBN-10: 1616195398. Hardcover. New. $75. * The blending of myth and legal history evident in the body of literary and legal texts produced to debate the 1604 union proposals of James VI and I illustrates the seamless nature of the legal and literary canons at a formative moment in the history of British-American constitutionalism. This case study focuses on one of the lesser known Union Tracts, George Saltern's 1605 Of the Antient Lawes of Great Britaine in conjunction with examples from various union tracts and contemporaneous works in British history, Calvin's Case and other judicial opinions, and works of British-American political thought to illustrate and evaluate the creative mix of mythical and historical elements present in the juridical historiography of the ancient constitution. King James's proposed 'restitution' of a realm that never existed--the unified realm of Great Britain--could only have been defended through such a blend of literary myth, history, and legal precedents. Furthermore, tracing the juridical historiography of ancient constitutionalism over the following centuries reveals the surprising extent to which ancient constitutionalist thought has continued to influence the development of Anglo-American constitutionalism to the present day - most significantly so in the jurisprudence and political thought of American Originalism. "This is a valuable study in the mythology necessary to medieval and early modern constitutionalism and the political thought arising from it." -- J.G.A. Pocock, P.E., Johns Hopkins University, author of The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law. Erin Rahne Kidwell, J.D. Cum Laude, Capital University Law School, LL.M. and S.J.D., Georgetown Law School, was the Curator of Legal History Collections at Georgetown Law Library and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law. In 2015 she was the Academic Advisor to the 2016 Folger Library exhibit Age of Lawyers: the Roots of American Law in Shakespeare's Britain. She retired in 2016 and is now an independent scholar. …

London: Iohn Iaggard, 1605. An Early Stuart Apologia for Legal Union Myth, Antiquity, and the Defense of "Ancient Liberties" Saltern (Salteren), George. Of the Antient Lawes of Great Britaine. London: Printed for Iohn Iaggard, And Are to bee Solde at His Shop in Fleetestreete, at the Signe of the Hand and Starre, 1605. Quarto (6-3/4" x 5"; 172 x 127 mm). [86] pp. Wanting initial blank A1; text complete. Later paneled calf, raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece, board edges gilt. Some rubbing and minor scuffing, more pronounced at extremities; front board detached. Early shelfmark and armorial bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield to front pastedown. Moderate browning, with occasional light dampstaining and soiling. Margins trimmed, at places shaving signature marks, catchwords, and part of the imprint. Early annotations and underlining in a contemporary hand, occasionally affected by trimming. Discreet embossed Macclesfield stamps to title and following leaf. Housed in a crimson quarter morocco clamshell case. $5,000. Only edition. Rare. A curious and ambitious contribution to the ideological literature surrounding the proposed Anglo-Scottish Union under James I. Writing at a moment of acute constitutional sensitivity, Saltern seeks to allay entrenched anxieties that incorporation would erode the "ancient liberties" of either realm. His strategy-distinctive among Unionist writers-is to posit not divergence but deep continuity: an inherited body of "antient lawes" shared by both kingdoms, extending (with characteristic early-Stuart antiquarian licence) from a pre-Roman past into the present. The tract thus belongs to that fertile intersection of legal humanism and political propaganda in the early seventeenth century, where history-frequently conjectural-was deployed in aid of present constitutional design. Its argument, though ultimately unpersuasive in its own moment, anticipates later efforts to articulate a common British legal identity prior to the statutory Union of 1707. Provenance: The celebrated Macclesfield library at Shirburn Castle, one of the great aristocratic collections formed in the eighteenth century and long noted for the strength of its legal holdings. Rare in commerce, with no recent market presence traced. ESTC S116514. OCLC records copies at a small number of institutional libraries (including Harvard, Yale, the Li. London: Iohn Iaggard, 1605. (illustrator).…