Jonathan Sumption
Born
in The United Kingdom
December 09, 1948
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Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, Volume 1
12 editions
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1990
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Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics
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Trial by Fire: The Hundred Years War, Volume 2
11 editions
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1999
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Divided Houses: The Hundred Years War, Volume 3
9 editions
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2009
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The Albigensian Crusade
9 editions
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1978
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Cursed Kings: The Hundred Years War, Volume 4
5 editions
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2015
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Edward III: A Heroic Failure
5 editions
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2016
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Law in a Time of Crisis
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Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God
15 editions
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1975
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Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War, Volume 5
2 editions
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2023
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“He rose late. He was recklessly extravagant and a notorious womaniser. The King was never a cipher. But well before his world was clouded by illness and insanity his capacity for public business was limited. He was idle, slow-witted and easily bored.”
― Divided Houses: The Hundred Years War, Volume 3
― Divided Houses: The Hundred Years War, Volume 3
“There are black-letter lawyers and lawyers who bring a greater measure of inventiveness to their task. There are activist lawyers and those who believe that the law should impose as little as possible on human affairs. There are instinctive believers in legal solutions and instinctive sceptics. The intensely deliberative nature of judicial decision-making, at any rate at the appellate level, usually irons out the grosser personal idiosyncracies. However, most of the problems with which lawyers have to deal are not about law at all. They are about fact and evidence. Lawyers are formed by experience to analyse complex factual issues in which they have no pre-existing expertise, often concerned with arcane scientific, economic or statistical concepts. It is a valuable discipline.”
― Law in a Time of Crisis
― Law in a Time of Crisis
“Majority rule is the basic principle of democracy. But that only means that a majority is enough to authorise the state’s acts. It is not enough to make them legitimate. This is because majority rule is no more than a rule of decision. It does nothing to accommodate our differences. It just restates them in numerical terms. Democracies cannot operate on the basis that a bare majority takes 100 per cent of the political spoils. If it did, it would harbour large and permanently disaffected groups in their midst, who had no common bonds to transcend their differences with the majority.”
― Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics
― Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics
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