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xiii The author wishes here to acknowledge the support of the Leverhulme Fund and the law firms of Slaughter and May (London) and generous personal support from Mr. Tim Clark; also of Getty, Meyer and Mayo (Lexington , Kentucky), for grants which have supported this research. I am also most grateful to Joyce Appleby, to my late friend Gerald Aylmer, Sir John Baker, Peter Dickson, Joshua Getzler, Daniel W. Howe, Joanna Innes, Maija Jenssen, David Seipp, Shannon Stimson, Warren Swain, Michael Thompson , and John Zvesper for comments and information on drafts in various stages (some hardly now recognizable); also to the Rare Books and Special Collections department and the Manuscript Reading Rooms of the Library of Congress, the sta≠s of Rhodes House Library, Oxford, the New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, Historical Society of Pennsylvania , Harvard Law Library, Columbia Law Library, and Yale Law Library, and several others for their always generous help. I have greatly appreciated the assistance of Juliana Dresvina, Shruti Vidnyasagar, Yvonne Cornish, and Sarah Apetrei. Earlier versions of individual chapters have been presented to seminars at Berkeley (political science), Harvard Law School, Oxford Modern History Faculty, Princeton University history department, University of Texas Law School, and Yale Law School, whose searching but generous comments have done much to improve the text. The intersecting paths of legal, political, and cultural history are strewn with traps, and my counsellors must not be held to have agreed with my views, nor are they accountable for errors that may have survived scrutiny. Acknowledgments ...

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