The Historical Roots of the Australian Constitution

Constitutional Law among the Ancient Britons

Dr. J.A. Giles was a Doctor of Common Law, and a Late Fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford. He observed27 how the historical Welsh Triads record that the first colonists of Britain were 'Cymri' who originally came from the Summer-Land of the Tauric Chersonesus — from Defrobani Gwlad Yr Hav, say the ancient Welsh Triads. Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke stated28 of Britain that "Brutus…died…before the incarnation of Christ 1103 years — Samuel then being Judge of Israel…. Brutus, the first king of this land — as soon as he had settled himself in his kingdom — for