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Intellectual history

the seventeenth-century English belief in an immemorial common-law constitution older than the Norman Conquest.

In intellectual history, ancient constitution refers to the seventeenth-century English belief in an immemorial common-law constitution older than the Norman Conquest. This meaning comes from Pocock (1957/1987) in The ancient constitution and the feudal law.[1]

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Pocock, J. G. A. (1987). The ancient constitution and the feudal law: A study of English historical thought in the seventeenth century (Reissue with a retrospect). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1957) ISBN 9780521316439

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