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The Constitutional History of England
'Constitutional history should, to my mind, be a history not of parties but of institutions, not of struggles but of results …' F. W. Maitland's remarkable course of lectures provides the basic framework of English constitutional history in a brief, but original, scholarly and very readable form. His method is to take five crucial periods and to present in each a panoramic view of the processes of law and government; his attention is always fixed on the constitution as a growing fabric, as something devised and employed by live human beings. And in this work, as in all he subsequently wrote, Maitland shows a rare combination of high speculative power with exact knowledge of detail.
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The Constitutional History of England
'Constitutional history should, to my mind, be a history not of parties but of institutions, not of struggles but of results …' F. W. Maitland's remarkable course of lectures provides the basic framework of English constitutional history in a brief, but original, scholarly and very readable form. His method is to take five crucial periods and to present in each a panoramic view of the processes of law and government; his attention is always fixed on the constitution as a growing fabric, as something devised and employed by live human beings. And in this work, as in all he subsequently wrote, Maitland shows a rare combination of high speculative power with exact knowledge of detail.
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The Constitutional History of England

The Constitutional History of England

by Frederic William Maitland
The Constitutional History of England

The Constitutional History of England

by Frederic William Maitland

Overview

'Constitutional history should, to my mind, be a history not of parties but of institutions, not of struggles but of results …' F. W. Maitland's remarkable course of lectures provides the basic framework of English constitutional history in a brief, but original, scholarly and very readable form. His method is to take five crucial periods and to present in each a panoramic view of the processes of law and government; his attention is always fixed on the constitution as a growing fabric, as something devised and employed by live human beings. And in this work, as in all he subsequently wrote, Maitland shows a rare combination of high speculative power with exact knowledge of detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521091374
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03/01/1920
Pages: 580
Product dimensions: 5.04(w) x 7.99(h) x 1.26(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Analysis; 1. English public law at the death of Edward I; 2. Public law at the death of Henry VII; 3. Sketch of public law at the death of James I; 4. Sketch of public law at the death of William III; 5. Sketch of public law at the present day; Appendix; Index.
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