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Literature is a seducer, we had almost said a harlot. She may do to trifle with, but woe be to the state whose statesmen writes verses, and whose lawyers read more in Tom Moore than in Bracton...
That force survived and beat down the political absolutism of the 17th and 18th centuries, which held that the law was no more than the will of the sovereign. Sir Edward Coke immortalized Bracton's words-"Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege" (The king ought not to be under man, but under God and the law)-by flinging them in the furious face of absolutist James I. Then Coke fell to his knees in terror of losing his head-yet his doctrine lives today as the wellspring of the rule...
Facts are now out for most of the first round arguments. The following clubs will meet in the early competitions: Beal vs. Morgan; Bracton vs. Van Devanter; Bryce vs. Taft; Burke vs. Sayre; Cardozo vs. Powell; Chafee vs. Sanford; Choate Parsons vs. Coke; G. Gray vs. Root; Hudson vs. Sayre; Kent vs. Williston; Lowell vs. Thayer-Holmes; Marshall vs. Scott; Plumer vs. Pound; Pollock vs. Warren; Reading vs. Sutherland; J. Smith vs. Story...
Docket number 131 is the Harlan, Club (Meyers, Benton) versus the Bracton Club (Hanna, Aitkin). The meeting will be at 33 Walter Hastings Hall with C. L. Kades 2L as chief justice...
Docket number 27 is the Bracton Club (Feighan, Lafferty) versus the Lincoin Club (Doyle, Hardwicko). Meeting at 18 Ware Street with David Teitelbaum 3L as chief justice...