The liberty of unlicensed printing--less admirable than they accounted it--the difference between a Habeas Corpus and a lettre de cachet, the regular succession of Parliaments, all these impressed them, who knew the meaning of their absence, as a magnificent achievement.
Laski discusses how various aspects of English law impressed French thinkers who were familiar with their own oppressive systems.
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