Lord Somers : John Somers (1651-1716), English jurist & statesman who presided over the framing of the Declaration of Rights.
... Raghunandan and custom. This religious fiction was very much like the English superstition about the British constitution which is supposed to be the same thing it was in the days of Lord Somers, but is really a thing Lord Somers would have stared at aghast as an unrecognisable democratic horror. The cause is the same in both cases—a robust and tenacious society freely developing its machinery in response ...
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