• The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic
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3. especially
4. parliament
5. subjects
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The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament. by : Bernard Bailyn

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