Leading Works in the History of the Constitution

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.

List of contents

Introduction; 1: Magna Carta: the soul of the British constitution; 2: Sir John Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae and The Governance of England; 3: Sir Edward Coke's The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; 4: The Petition of Right; 5: The Instrument of Government of 1653; 6: The Toleration Act and the Confessional State; 7: The Act of Settlement 1701; 8: 1707 Union Between England and Scotland; 9: Bolingbroke's Remarks on the History of England and Dissertation upon Parties; 10: Entick Carrington; 11: William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England; 12: Jean-Louis de Lolme, The Constitution of England (1775); 13: Mary Wollstonecraft on the Constitution; 14: Edmund Burke's Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents; 15: The depiction of the British constitution in caricature, 1784-1819; 16: Thomas Erskine May, A Treatise Upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament; 17: The Government of India Act 1858; 18: Comparative Perspectives on the Historical Legacy of the English Constitution

About the author

Chris Monaghan is a Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester.

Product details

• Authors: Chris (University of Worcester Monaghan
• Assisted by: Monaghan Chris (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032658612
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3265861-2
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Analysing Leading Works in Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Constitutional, Politics & government, Legal History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Politics and government, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law