"It is no mere accident that Maine, who in his Ancient Law undermined the authority of analytical jurisprudence, aimed in his Popular Government a blow at the foundations of Benthamite faith in democracy."

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University of Cambridge facultyJuristsUniversity of Oxford facultyHistorians from ScotlandNon-fiction authors from Scotland
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A. V. Dicey, Lectures on the Relation between Law & Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century (1905; 2nd ed. 1914), p. 461, n. 1