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"Madam President, perhaps the most celebrated jurist of the modern age in Britain, Lord Denning, made an analogy with the relationship between EU and national law in the 1960s.
He said it was spreading up the river mouths and estuaries of England. In 1990, towards the end of his extraordinary life, he revised the metaphor. He said: ‘It is no longer like an incoming tide, it is now a tidal wave that has come beyond the estuaries and is flooding over our fields and houses’.
There is a fundamental incompatibility between the Roman law system, based on writing down an idea from first principles and then applying it to specific cases and that extraordinary, anomalous, beautiful product of human ingenuity, the common law, as practised in England and Ireland, which grows coral-like, case by case, applying not abstract principles but real results.
John Adams, the second president of the United States, called it the most excellent monument, the best guarantor of human freedoms, and every step towards harmonisation, which understandably and naturally harmonises towards the mean is a diminution of that system, which has been our defence of freedom through the centuries."@en1
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