Leading Works in the History of the Constitution
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Leading Works in the History of the Constitution

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Leading Works in the History of the Constitution

About this book

This collection brings together academic analysis of leading contemporary accounts of the British Constitution with key constitutional documents and sources while also offering analysis of the leading histories of the Constitution.

The works in question represent examples of the constitutionally most significant legislation, judicial decisions and commentaries by scholars and key actors. Its scope is the 700 years of English and then British history from the Magna Carta to Britain as an imperial power grappling with the question of how to govern India.

The contributors, presenting a balance of established academics and early career researchers, present an original and succinct account of the significance of each leading work. They draw upon the context in which it was written, contemporary literature and more modern academic analysis of the work and its author(s).

Presenting a complement to standard texts on the history of the Constitution, the book will be of interest to researchers and academics working in the areas of Constitutional Law and Politics, Public Law and Legal History.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040397268
Topic
Law
Subtopic
British History
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Table of cases
  9. Preface
  10. Contributors biographies
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Magna Carta: the soul of the British constitution
  13. 2 Sir John Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae and The Governance of England
  14. 3 Sir Edward Coke’s The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
  15. 4 The Petition of Right
  16. 5 The Instrument of Government of 1653
  17. 6 The Toleration Act and the confessional state
  18. 7 The Act of Settlement 1701
  19. 8 1707 union between England and Scotland
  20. 9 Bolingbroke’s Remarks on the History of England and Dissertation upon Parties
  21. 10 Entick v Carrington
  22. 11 William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England
  23. 12 Jean-Louis de Lolme, The Constitution of England
  24. 13 Mary Wollstonecraft on the constitution
  25. 14 Edmund Burke’s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
  26. 15 The depiction of the British constitution in caricature, 1784–1819
  27. 16 Thomas Erskine May, A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament
  28. 17 The Government of India Act 1858
  29. 18 Comparative perspectives on the historical legacy of the English constitution
  30. Index