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