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William Sharp McKechnie's Magna Carta is subtitled A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John. Footnotes are gathered at the end of each chapter in this edition.
One passage covers King John's titles, noting that he lost Anjou and Normandy but kept their titles, and that England alone was held under the style of Rex, while of Ireland he called himself lord. A footnote in another passage points readers to a short account of the forests, with their special laws, officials and courts, and the text mentions the modern doctrine of ministerial responsibility. In a discussion of chapter 16, the promise that no one should be compelled to do greater service than was formerly due, and of chapter 45, on justiciars, sheriffs and bailiffs, McKechnie notes that no machinery or criterion of fitness was supplied.
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- William Sharp McKechnie
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