The Sources
IAIN HUNTER
Having written the first four parts of this series on Common Law and the Constitution I thought it would be a good and sensible idea to finish with a Part Five that listed the sources so that others may be assisted in looking into the subject if they have a mind to. Readers might like to recap on the articles, so here are Part One; Part Two; Part Three and Part Four.
It has been three years since I first started to look into Common law. What prompted it was a chain of emails I exchanged with someone who had contacted me via the comments section on The Conservative Woman (TCW) below one of the articles I had written. My correspondent had been trying for some time to get people to pay attention to what he saw was a corruption of our constitution and legal system. As he was gaining no traction with Kathy Gyngell at TCW who would not publish his writings, and as he was also getting on in years, he wanted someone younger to hand all his material on to. Although I was in my early 70s, for some reason he thought I could be that man, so he sent me two booklets, a number of photocopies of book pages and newspaper cuttings.
Many of the papers had a distinct antisemitic or anti-Zionist flavour but I chose to ignore that and concentrated on those that dealt with our constitution and Parliament.
The booklets I received were:
The British Constitution and the Corruption of Parliament, The Candour Writings of Ben Greene published by the A K Chesterton Trust.
And:
The Basic Factors in British Greatness – Law, Constitution & Economics, Britain & the Christian Faith.
The writer in the first booklet, Ben Greene, was a Labour politician and pacifist. He was a cousin of author Graham Greene and Hugh Greene who was the Director General of the BBC from 1960 to 1969. He had written a number of articles for Candour, a right-wing nationalist magazine founded by A K Chesterton, a cousin once removed of G K Chesterton and Cecil Chesterton both of whom he held in high regard. Chesterton had been a member of Mosley’s British Union of Fascists for five years, but he became disillusioned and left by 1938. After the war, he was involved in setting up other nationalist groups.
The British Constitution and the Corruption of Parliament, a 65-page booklet, is freely available from Amazon, Abe books and Waterstones and number of other sites as well as at
https://www.candour.org.uk
A caveat if you wish to obtain a copy from Candour: The magazine seems to be published irregularly now and the website has the year 2020 at the bottom of its pages so it may be advisable to attempt contact first to ensure someone is still operating it before ordering anything.
The second booklet, The Basic Factors in British Greatness is based on the writings of a Michael Young in 1963 published by the Kingdom Foundation. It can be read or exported as a .pdf here:
In Part Two: Economics, there will be found as good an explanation of the rise of the Money Power, and the fraudulence and criminality of central banking as will be read anywhere.
My interest aroused, I started searching on the internet and soon found a publication called Common Law Community Training Manual, so I bought a copy. It describes a Common Law judicial system and provides a blueprint for how one could be set up and enforced by a suitably educated populace. It can be obtained from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Common-Law-Community-Training-Manual/dp/149619246X
Alternatively, you can download a .pdf here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/191829059/Common-Law-Community-Training-Manual-ITCCS
One of the first places I consulted was UK Column. On this page you will find lots of articles, podcasts and videos on constitutional and Common Law matters including some about Grand Juries. I would recommend starting here with the Column’s excellent podcast series A Dissident’s Guide to the Constitution which is in six parts.
In my searches I came across the excellent website run by Common Law and constitutional researcher Will Keyte:
https://www.commonlawconstitution.org
There is a wealth of information at commonlawconstitution.org including on the subsite https://www.lawandalchemy.org for those who are interested in Natural Law and the esoteric foundations of the constitution. The best place to start is The Occulted Powers of the British Constitution which can be downloaded here:
https://www.commonlawconstitution.org/resources/the-occulted-powers-of-the-british-constitution
There is a massive amount of information, including a YouTube channel, so have a good browse. In Resources > Learning there is a link to a 1986 PBS Frontline Documentary about the deliberations of a Wisconsin jury which carried out a jury nullification. It’s just under an hour long and Will Keyte rates it “Compulsory Viewing”.
At the same place, the essay by Lysander Spooner on Trial by Jury is an essential read.
As I outlined in Part One, I came across the Sovereign Natural Empowerment on-line course being constructed by the late Karen-Ruth Skölmli which, sadly, she couldn’t complete before her untimely death. It can be found here:
https://ebmcsquared.org/events-and-courses
Shortly before her death she did a podcast with Richard Vobes which I linked in Part One. I include it again for completeness.
Recommended by Ruth Skölmli to those who would like to understand more about Natural Law is this video of a one-day seminar with Mark Passio which I also linked in Part One. It’s nearly nine hours long so you could take it in chunks of an hour or so. Alternatively, you may find someone has uploaded it already broken down into digestible episodes.
There are two important books in relation to Common Law, Constitution and True Democracy. The first is referenced by both Ruth Skölmli and Will Keyte: Democracy Defined by Kenn D’Oudney which you can buy at Amazon. Be sure you get the new 2025 edition.
The other is Smoke & Mirrors by Edward Fitzgerald which is available direct from
https://www.edward-fitzgerald.com/smoke-and-mirrors
Use the Promo code PETITION to get an electronic copy for £2.22.
Further background reading is The Party System by Hilaire Belloc and Cecil Chesterton. Copies of a 2022 re-published edition are available from Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Party-System-Hilaire-Belloc/dp/101593207X
There is a Kindle edition for 73 pence, or you can read or download it at:
https://archive.org/details/ThePartySystem
Another book which is useful background reading is The Dilemma of Democracy by Lord Hailsham (Quintin Hogg), published in 1978. There seem to be a good number of copies available both from Amazon and other second-hand book websites.
Just to even up the balance so you can read what we are up against there is The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham. Bingham was successively Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord under Prime Ministers John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Professor David Starkey thinks he is at the root of our woes with international human rights law which, as admitted by Bingham, creates an anti-democratic two-tier society because it places the rights and interests of minorities over those of the majority.
There have been any number of podcasts on Common Law by such people as the already mentioned Richard Vobes and Neil Oliver who have both interviewed Will Keyte. One of the best is Professor Dolores Cahill talking to Doc Malik (Ahmad Malik) on Covid, The Law and More. Cahill is a former University of Dublin professor of molecular biology and immunology who very early in the Covid era realised something was wrong and spoke out at protests in Dublin and London in 2020. For that she has been just as thoroughly cancelled and censored as has Dr Mike Yeadon, a sure sign that she was ‘right over the target’. She is associated with the World Freedom Alliance and she is training people in many countries about operating in the law and Common Law Trial by Jury. She wrote the foreword to Edward Fitzgerald’s Smoke & Mirrors.
Here’s the podcast. You can listen to the whole 2 hours and 20 minutes if you want but the important explanatory bit starts at 1 hour 25 minutes in.
https://rumble.com/v4f9jzf-140-dolores-cahill-discusses-covid-the-law-and-so-much-more.html
I’m sure there will be more information out there, but I think that should be more than enough for people who are interested to be getting on with.
This article (Common Law: A Way to Make Our Government Serve Us – Part Five) was created and published by Iain Hunter and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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