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  1. Lilburne (1653), p. 5.

  2. Aristotle 1934, pp. 7–8.

  3. Krygier (2019b).

  4. Krygier (2019b).

  5. Quoted in West (1989), p. xxi, note 28.

  6. Krygier (2019a), p. 110.

  7. Krygier (2002).

  8. Lilburne (1653), p. 5.

  9. Krygier (2019a), p. 126.

  10. Krygier (2019a), p. 106.

  11. Krygier (2019b).

  12. Krygier (2019a), p. 106.

  13. EP Thompson quoted in Krygier (2019a), p. 119.

  14. Krygier (2019a), p. 111.

  15. Krygier (2019a), pp. 111–112.

  16. Krygier (2019a), p. 112.

  17. Jeremy Waldron quoted in Krygier (2019b).

  18. Krygier (2019b).

  19. Krygier (2019a), p. 114.

  20. Krygier (2019a), p. 113.

  21. Krygier (2016), p. 221.

  22. Sempill (2017), Sempill (2018).

  23. Krygier (2019a), p. 106.

  24. Selznick (1969).

  25. Krygier (2016), p. 221.

  26. Thompson (1980), p. 231.

  27. Quoted in Krygier (2019a), p. 119. See also Krygier (1991) pp. 651–652 and Krygier (2016), pp. 209–210.

  28. Krygier (1991), p. 640.

  29. Krygier (2016), pp. 211–212.

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Sempill, J.A. Against Errors of Intellectual Abstraction: For a Humanist Rule of Law. Hague J Rule Law 11, 501–508 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-019-00104-3

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