utledge, the supreme court's second supreme court justice, called cocok's is to choose the foundations of our law. jefferson wrote to madison that there was never profound or learning english liberties. as an aside, when the young jefferson was actually studying wishin 1762, he wrote, "i cook,vil had old because am sure i was never so tired of an old scoundrel in my life." came acase, with cook reverence for his conception of magna carta. and american settlers incorporated elements of the great charter into colonial law. when they revolted against george iii, they did not view their causes a fight for novel freedoms. but rather, one to preserve liberties they traced to magna carta. boston's with within city limits, the colonialists invoked magna carta's guarantees in response to george iii's injustices. the massachusetts assembly declared the stamp act illegally because it was against magna carta and the natural rights of englishmen, and therefore, according to lord cook, null and void. john adams asserted that britain's restrictions on the jurisdiction of colonial courts violated the