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Coke's and For
For example, drawing on Coke's statement, James Otis, Jr. declared during the struggle over writs of assistance that it was the duty of the courts to ignore Acts of Parliament " against the constitution and against natural equity ", an argument and struggle that had a significant impact on John Adams.

Coke's and American
However, it continued to be known in the American colonies and in the bars of young states, where Coke's books were very influential.
In America, Coke's decision in Dr. Bonham's Case was used to justify the voiding of the Stamp Act 1765 and writs of assistance, which led to the American War of Independence, and after the establishment of the United States his decisions and writings profoundly influenced the Third and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution while necessitating the Sixteenth.
Academics have argued that Coke's work in Bonham's Case forms the basis of judicial review and the declaration of legislation as unconstitutional in the United States ; another calls this " one of the most enduring myths of American constitutional law and theory, to say nothing of history ", pointing out that at no point during the Constitutional Convention was Bonham's Case referenced.
William Windham, Coke's friend and supporter during the American Revolutionary War
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Academics have argued that Coke's work in Bonham's Case forms the basis of judicial review and the declaration of legislation as unconstitutional in the United States ; other academics disagree, with one scholar calling this " one of the most enduring myths of American constitutional law and theory, to say nothing of history ".
Edward Samuel Corwin, writing in the Harvard Law Review, praised the idea of a fundamental higher law of reason enforceable by judges, and accordingly endorsed " the ratification which Coke's doctrine received in American constitutional law and theory ".

Coke's and law
Coke's discussion of natural law appears in his report of Calvin's Case ( 1608 ): " The law of nature is that which God at the time of creation of the nature of man infused into his heart, for his preservation and direction.
Hale's jurisprudence struck a middle-ground between Edward Coke's " appeal to reason " and John Selden's " appeal to contract ", while refuting elements of Thomas Hobbes's theory of natural law.
Coke's active intervention allowed him to " breath new life into medieval law and use it to oppose conciliar justice ", encouraging judges to be more independent and " unfettered except by the common law whose supremacy it was their duty to uphold ".
Coke's theory meant that certainty of the law and " intellectual beauty " was the way to see if a law was just and correct, and that the system of law could eventually become sophisticated enough to be predictable.
Hobbes felt that there was no skill unique to lawyers, and that the law could be understood not through Coke's " reason " ( the method used by lawyers ) but through understanding the King's instructions.
Coke's mother was Winifred Knightley Coke, who came from a family even more intimately linked with the law than her husband.
Coke became involved in Shelley's Case in 1581, a now-classic case that created a rule in real property that is still used in some common law jurisdictions today and also established Coke's reputation as both an attorney and a case reporter.
His next famous case was Chudleigh's Case, a dispute over the interpretation of the Statute of Uses, while his third was Slade's Case, a dispute between the Common Pleas and King's Bench over assumpsit now regarded as a classic example of the friction between the two courts and the forward movement of contract law ; Coke's argument in the case formed the first definition of consideration.
Coke's behaviour during the trial has been repeatedly criticised ; on this weak evidence, he called Raleigh a " notorious traitor ", " vile viper " and " damnable atheist ", perverting the law and using every slip of the tongue as a way of further showing Raleigh's guilt.
Coke's meaning has been disputed over the years ; some interpret his judgment as referring simply to judicial review of statutes to correct misunderstandings which would render them unfair, while others argue he meant that the common law courts have the power to completely strike down those statutes they deem to be repugnant.
On 25 April 1616 the courts, at Coke's bidding, held that this action was illegal, writing to the King that " in case any letters come unto us contrary to law, we do nothing by such letters, but certify your Majesty thereof, and go forth to do the law notwithstanding the same ".
Martial law was then declared, with continued imprisonment for a failure to pay the forced loans and soldiers billeted in the homes of private citizens to intimidate the population – something which led to Coke's famous declaration that " the house of an Englishman is to him as his castle ".
John Marshall Gest, writing in the Yale Law Journal, notes that " There are few principles of the common law that can be studied without an examination of Coke's Institutes and Reports which summed up the legal learning of his time ", although " the student is deterred by the too common abuse of Coke's character and the general criticism of his writings as dry, crabbed, verbose and pedantic ".
His Law Reports, known as Coke's Reports, were an archive of law reports of cases he had participated in, watched or heard of, and started with notes he made as a law student in winter 1572 ; he started fully reporting cases in October 1579.
The Reports were initially written down in seven notebooks, four of which are still lost ; the first notebook contains not only law reports, but also a draft version of Coke's first Institutes of the Lawes of England.

Coke's and meant
Coke's theory meant that certainty of the law and " intellectual beauty " was the way to see if a law was just and correct, and that the system of law could eventually become sophisticated enough to be predictable.
" Coke's meaning has been disputed over the years ; according to one interpretation, Coke intended the kind of judicial review that would later develop in the United States, whereas other scholars contend that Coke only meant to construe a statute without challenging Parliamentary sovereignty.

Coke's and Sir
* Publication of Sir Edward Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England begins with A Commentary upon Littleton.
As a teenager Williams was apprenticed with Sir Edward Coke ( 1552 – 1634 ), the famous jurist, and under Coke's patronage, Williams was educated at Charterhouse and also at Pembroke College, Cambridge ( B. A., 1627 ).
The first of these was the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh ; according to one of Coke's biographers, " There is, perhaps, no reported case in which the proofs against the prisoner were weaker than in this trial ... never was an accused person condemned on slighter grounds ".
It is said that Coke first suggested marrying Hatton to Sir Robert Cecil, Hatton's uncle, at the funeral of Lord Burghley, Coke's patron ; he needed to ensure that he would continue his rise under Burghley's son, Cecil, and did this by marrying into the family.
John Baker has described them as " perhaps the single most influential series of named reports ", and even Francis Bacon, Coke's rival, wrote praisingly of them, saying " Had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports ( which though they may have errors, and some peremptory and extrajudicial resolutions more than are warranted, yet they contain infinite good decisions and rulings over of cases ), for the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast ; for that the cases of modern experience are fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former time ".
In the trial of Sir Roger Casement for treason, Coke's assertion that treason is defined as " giving aide and comfort to the King's enemies within the realme or without " was the deciding factor.
Coke's elder son, Sir John Coke was a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War, while his younger son Thomas Coke was a Royalist.
Sir Edward Coke's prosecution case for Raleigh's involvement in the Bye Plot was tenuous and rhetorical, heavy on personal abuse, but Raleigh's role on the periphery of the Main Plot left him with much to explain.
During Coke's lifetime he was judicially dominant, and his ideas were upheld by his successor as Chief Justice, Sir Henry Hobart, in Day v Savadge and Lord Sheffield v Ratcliffe.

Coke's and Edward
The idea that courts could nullify statutes originated in England with Chief Justice Edward Coke's 1610 opinion in Dr. Bonham ’ s Case, 8 Co. Rep. 107a.
The surname " Coke ", or " Cocke ", can be traced back approximately 400 years before Edward Coke's birth, to a William Coke in the hundred of South Greenhoe, now Swaffham.
alt = An image of Thomas Coke, Edward Coke's descendant.
This practice usually consisted of reading classic legal texts, such as Edward Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England and William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.
The site ( Fairford Region ; South Cerny Region ; Coke's Pit Lake ; Edward Richardson and Phyllis Amey reserve ; Bryworth Lane reserve ) are listed in the ' Cotswold District ' Local Plan 2001-2011 ( on line ) as a Key Wildlife Site ( KWS ).

Coke's and right
Coke's challenge to the ecclesiastical courts and their ex officio oath is seen as the origin of the right to silence ; with his decision that common law courts could issue writs of prohibition against such oaths, and his arguments that such oaths were contrary to the common law ( as found in his Reports and Institutes ), Coke " dealt the crucial blow to the oath ex officio and to the High Commission ".
The case of John Lilburne later confirmed that not only was such an oath invalid, but that there was a right to silence, drawing from Coke's decisions in reaching that conclusion.

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