The Constitutional History of England

By Frederic William Maitland

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521091373
• ISBN13: 9780521091374
• Release Date: January 1961
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"