MAGNA CARTA A COMMENTARY ON THE GREAT CHARTER OF KING JOHN

WITH AN

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

BY

WILLIAM SHARP McKECHNIE

M.A., LL.B., D.Phil.

LECTURER ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW AUTHOR OF ‘THE STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL; AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE’

GLASGOW

JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS

PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY

1905

GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.

TO THE

MEMORY OF MY FATHER

WILLIAM McKECHNIE, M.D.

BORN 1ST APRIL, 1814

DIED 2ND SEPTEMBER, 1887

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