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From Time Immemorial
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This is a history of The Rule of Law.
How was it created? Who were the people who created it? When were the principles of the Rule of Law created.
As you may suspect, it required the efforts of many exceptional people in events that spanned 2,000 years to create the Anglo-American Rule of Law, the bedrock of Western Civilization.
You'll hear about those events and the individuals who fought the great battles in England and America to create a system with as its central principle, as Thomas Paine said, "in America the Law is King."
In this episode: "From Time Immemorial" you'll go back in time to 55 B.C. to find out that the assumption by some that English law was based on the laws of the Roman Empire is incorrect.
You'll then proceed at a rapid pace covering 1,100 years of English history examining the evolution of Anglo-Saxon law up to 1066 A.D. and the Great Apocalypse, the Norman Invasion. Along the way, you'll discover that the legal principle carved into the stone pediment at the top of the United States Supreme Court, "Equal Justice Under the Law" has as its source, the only king in English history to be called "Great," a Saxon king.
Then, in the next episode, The Apocalypse, you'll discover why it is more appropriate to call English law, "Anglo-Norman Law" than "Anglo-Saxon Law."
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