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William Blackstone
1723–1780
Sir William Blackstone. Oxford jurist and judge. Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69) codified the common law and became the foundational legal text of the Anglo-American world. Grounded English law in natural law theory in the tradition of Hooker. Standard reading at Princeton under Witherspoon; shaped the legal thought of the American founders.
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