Excerpt from The Rule-Making Authority in the English Supreme Court The English courts, on the other hand, were not the people's but the King's. The Crown, in the English Constitution, is the fountainhead of justice. However much of a fiction the participation of the King in public affairs may be to-day, he was, in the early days, in a very real sense the dispenser of right. It was to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.