uncorrupted, and their Laws from violation’; and at the same time
declared it ‘a most sure Rule in State policy, That all the Laws that are
made in favour of liberty, spring first from the disagreement of the
people with their Governors’.^8
(^8) The English Levellers, 33, 48, 95, 197; G. Burgess, The Politics of the Ancient
Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought 1603–1642 (London, 1992), 90–3,
226–9; Glover, ‘Putney Debates’, 63 ff.
340 Conclusion: Law and the State in History