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Probably the most prominent jurist and political theorist in fifteenth-century England, Sir John Fortescue (c. 1395–c. 1477) was active in the service of Henry VI, both as a propagandist and as Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. His most important works are Opusculum de natura legis naturae (1461–1463), De laudibus legum Angliae (1468–1470), and The Governance of England (1471), the first treatise on the constitution of England written in English.
Originally published in Mortimer Sellers and Stephan Kirste, Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, © Springer Nature B.V. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_657-1.
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Simonetta, S. (2023). Fortescue, John. In: Zanetti, G., Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Studies in the History of Law and Justice, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19542-6_20
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