Constitutionalism and the Changing World
Collected Papers

This is a volume of fifteen collected papers on the history of constitutionalism and its bearing on contemporary problems

C. H. McIlwain (Author)

9780521141253, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 March 2010

324 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.41 kg

Originally published in 1939, this is a volume of fifteen collected papers on the history of constitutionalism and its bearing on contemporary problems. All but a few deal practically with the liberal idea of a state conducted on lines at once constitutional and democratic, and the conflict of this ideal with totalitarian conceptions.

Preface
1. The historian's part in a changing world
2. Sovereignty
3. A fragment on sovereignty
4. Whig sovereignty and Real sovereignty
5. Due process of law in Magna Carta
6. Magna Carta and Common Law
7. Who was 'Rossaeus'?
8. The House of Commons in 1621
9. A forgotten worthy, Philip Hunton, and the sovereignty of King in Parliament
10. The transfer of the Charter to New England and it significance in American constitutional history
11. The fundamental law behind the Constitution of the United States
12. Liberalism and the Totalitarian ideals
13. Government by law
14. The reconstruction of Liberalism
15. The tenure of English judges
Index.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]