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Leading Works in the History of the Constitution

Leading Works in the History of the Constitution

Author: Chris Monaghan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032658612
Published In: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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 seven hundred 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.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Magna Carta: the soul of the British constitution

Robert Craig

Chapter 2: Sir John Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae and The Governance of England

Paul Raffield

Chapter 3: Sir Edward Coke’s The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England

Glenn Burgess

Chapter 4: The Petition of Right

Ian Ward

Chapter 5: The Instrument of Government of 1653

Blair Worden

Chapter 6: The Toleration Act and the Confessional State