The Constitutional History of England
Author | : Frederic William Maitland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1920 |
ISBN-10 | : NLI:3863355-10 |
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Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book The Constitutional History of England written by Frederic William Maitland and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.