 The U.S. Supreme Court has explicitly referenced Edward Coke's analysis of Magna Carta as an antecedent of the Sixth Amendment's right to a speedy trial.Initially, the Whig interpretation of Magna Carta and its role in constitutional history remained dominant during the 19th century.The historian William Stubbs's "Constitutional History of England", published in the 1870s, formed the high-water mark of this view.