Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (1992), p. 17
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Until well into the nineteenth century, one could become a lawyer in the United States simply by studying Coke's First Institute.
— Richard Helgerson
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About Edward Coke
Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English Judge and jurist and later a politician whose writings on the English common law were definitive legal texts for some 300 years.
About Edward Coke
Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English Judge and jurist and later a politician whose writings on the English common law were definitive legal texts for some 300 years.
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