Early on, Henry Bracton, a thirteenth century jurist and compiler of the first known British legal compendium, The Statute and Common Law of England (in Latin, of course), recognized the revolutionary implications of the Magna Carta. For the first time, the king was explicitly subject to the common law: ‘The king must not be subject to any man, but to God and the law; for the law makes him king.’
- from a book
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