Introduction I Foretescue and the Brute : Nembroth Type Kingdom and Brutus Type Kingdom 1. Brutus & the Institution of the Kingdom (Dominium regale et politicium) 2. De Legum Laudibus Anglie ch. XVII revisited II Sir Edward Coke and the Brute : Analysis of the Prefaces to his Reports 1. Cokes' Earlier Reports and the Brute 2. Coke's Conquest Theory 3. The Imposition Debate & the Proclamation Case in 1610 4. Coke & the Norman Conquest 5. The Mirror of Justice, rediscovered III Selden and Rationalization of Fortescue's Constitutional Theory : Analysis of his Note Conclusion Transformation of the Theory of the Origin of Government : Hobbes and Hale