Product Description: In this erudite, entertaining book, award-winning historian and television presenter David Starkey untangles historical and modern misconceptions about one of the founding documents of democracy. Along the way, he shows how the Magna Carta laid the foundation for the British constitution, influenced the American Revolution and the U...read more

Product Description: To mark the 800th anniversary of the ratification of the Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede, Magna Carta provides the central European perspectives on this monumental document and its impact on the political and legal experiences of freedom, from the medieval period to the present day...read more

Product Description: To mark the 800th anniversary of the ratification of the Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede, Magna Carta provides the central European perspectives on this monumental document and its impact on the political and legal experiences of freedom, from the medieval period to the present day...read more

Product Description: In his 1941 inaugural address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt asserted that "the democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history . . . It was written in Magna Carta." In 1215, confronted by forty rebellious barons, King John of England affixed his seal to Magna Carta, thereby avoiding civil war...read more

Product Description: Co-published by the Library of Congress and Thomson Reuters; Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor is an illustrated collection of essays by renowned legal scholars. The Magna Carta was sealed under oath 800 years ago in 1215 and is widely known to be an important part of the historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law in England and beyond...read more

Product Description: Uncovering the Roots of the U.S. ConstitutionAmerica’s Constitution did not spring up suddenly in 1787. The framers were influenced at every turn by a tradition of constitutional development dating back to ancient times. That constitutional heritage passes almost unnoticed today—despite the fact that it has influenced legislators, judges, statesmen, and scholars for more than two hundred years...read more

Product Description: The fundamental legal and institutional changes of recent decades have brought the English constitution into question. Accompanying issues have been the extent to which its traditional character and main features have been changed, lost their former appeal and retained their distinctness in the European Union...read more

Product Description: The fundamental legal and institutional changes of recent decades have brought the English constitution into question. Accompanying issues have been the extent to which its traditional character and main features have been changed, lost their former appeal and retained their distinctness in the European Union...read more

Product Description: Disraeli, Benjamin. Vindication of the English Constitution in a Letter to a Noble and Learned Lord. London: Saunders and Otley, 1835. ix, [3]-210 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-730-4. ISBN-10: 1-58477-730-3...read more

Product Description: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, English and American lawyers appealed to "the ancient constitution" as the cornerstone of liberty. According to this idea, constitutional law was not dictated by a monarch but based on the authority of custom, passed down unaltered from time immemorial...read more

In this book Robert Stevens looks at the English Judiciary from an historical perspective with special reference to its changing role in the 20th Century. He examines current debates about the position of the judges in the light of the possible future role of the judiciary in the Constitution. The centerpiece of the book is a detailed study of the political influences on the judiciary and the influence the judiciary has had on politics in the 20th Century. It concludes with a series of proposed reforms to ensure that the English judiciary will both maintain its strength but enhance its utility in the 21st Century. It offers no simple-minded argument for separation of powers but analyzes what is needed to clarify the balance of powers and to advance the debate about the role of an unelected judiciary in an increasingly democratic society.

Product Description: Malden, Henry Elliot, Editor. Magna Carta Commemoration Essays. With a Preface by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Bryce. [London]: For the Royal Historical Society, 1917. xxxi, 310 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-436-5...read more

Product Description: Hantos, Elemer. The Magna Carta of the English and of the Hungarian Constitution: A Comparative View of the Law and Institutions of the Early Middle Ages. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1904. xxxi, 209 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd...read more

Product Description: McIlwain, Charles Howard. The High Court of Parliament and Its Supremacy: An Historical Essay on the Boundaries Between Legislation and Adjudication in England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910. xxi, 408 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd...read more

Product Description: John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England is the first text in over a century to examine the whole of Selden's works and thought. Reid Barbour brings a new perspective to Selden studies by stressing Selden's strong commitment to a 'religious society,' by taking a closer and more sustained look at his poetic interests, and by systematically examining his Latin publications (particularly those using Jewish sources)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The political, social and economic changes which overtook England in the early seventeenth century were both powerful and dramatic, forcing Parliament to adapt from a medieval institution into one with authority over all facets of society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1899 Excerpt: ... PART n. Cbe ©reat Cbartera, jForeet Charters ano Some ©tber Xawe...read more