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A copy of Sir Edward Coke’s The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England from 1681. “The Second Part of Coke’s Institutes contains Coke’s famous interpretation of Magna Carta which placed that medieval charter squarely in the center of English constitutional law,” the Library of Congress writes. “Lawyers in colonial America uniformly learned the law from Coke. Thomas Jefferson, no exception to this rule, had his own set of the Institutes.”