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Constitutionalism - Ancient & Modern (Paperback, Revised)
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Constitutionalism - Ancient & Modern (Paperback, Revised)
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List price R276
Loot Price R249
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You Save R27 (10%)
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This book explores the very roots of liberty by examining the
development of modern constitutionalism from its ancient and
medieval origins. Derived from a series of lectures delivered by
Charles Howard McIlwain at Cornell University in the 1938-39
academic year, these lectures provide a useful introduction to the
development of modern constitutional forms. McIlwain explores what
he calls "the two fundamental correlative elements of
constitutionalism for which all lovers of liberty must yet fight"
-- "the legal limits to arbitrary power and a complete political
responsibility of government to the governed". Despotic power has
risen to challenge constitutional governments in many countries,
and within this text, McIlwain shows how constitutional safeguards
that have been set against government by force have grown in the
Western world. McIlwain also outlines the general principles of
constitutionalism, especially as an Anglo-American tradition, and
traces its development from the law and custom of the Roman
Republic through the English common law to the establishment of
Americas constitutional government. In Chapter I McIlwain writes,
"For perhaps never in its long history has the principle of
constitutionalism been so questioned as it is questioned today,
never has the attack upon it been so determined or so threatening
as it is just now. The world is trembling in the balance between
the orderly procedure of law and the processes of force which seem
so much more quick and effective...Whether in the end we decide for
law or for force, ...we should retrace the history of our
constitutionalism". In tracing the rise of constitutionalism from
the ancient Greeks through the modern era, this brief volume on the
history of constitutionalism in Western political thought is
arguably the leading study of the legal limitations on the power of
government.
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