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English-speaking world,
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Empire, on the grounds that it assumed without sufficient justification that such institutions existed in an operational sense. He also argued that parallels drawn between
Germany and Anglo-Saxon England of the tenth century were ultimately quite misleading.
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of 1827 contains the "authoritative Whig presentation of modern
English history", and it "immediately took its place as a textbook in the Universities". The context is a contrast with the conservative
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and its approach to legal history. Lewis Henry LaRue, from the side of critical legal studies, in 1987 defended the proposition that
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Whig history and constitutional history in the university
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860:"Constitutional Law and Constitutional History"
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1305:Cannon, John; Crowcroft, Robert (2015-10-15).
1264:. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 66.
1146:. Cambridge University Press. pp. 284–5.
1086:Cannon, John; Crowcroft, Robert (2015-10-15).
1035:Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume X
984:. University of California Press. p. 74.
664:. Cambridge University Press. pp. 14–17.
30:is the area of historical study covering both
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1281:. Vol. II. J.B. Lippincott. p. 80.
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