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      The American Commonwealth

      This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.

      The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as a design element in Liberty Fund books is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.

      © 1995 by Liberty Fund, Inc.

      Front cover: Declaration of Independence in Congress, at the Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4th, 1776 (detail) by John Trumbull, 1786–1819. United States Capitol Art Collection. Photograph courtesy Architect of the Capitol.

      This eBook edition published in 2011.

      eBook ISBN: E-PUB 978-1-61487-121-7

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      To my friends and colleagues

      Albert Venn Dicey

      Thomas Erskine Holland

      Contents

      

VOLUME I

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