Chris Monaghan, a Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester, has published the edited collection, Leading Works in the History of the Constitution (Routledge):
This collection brings together academic analysis of leading contemporary accounts of the British Constitution with key constitutional documents and sources, while also offering analysis of the leading histories of the Constitution.
The works in question represent examples of the constitutionally most significant legislation, judicial decisions, and commentaries by scholars and key actors. Its scope is the seven hundred years of English, and then British, history from the Magna Carta to Britain as an imperial power grappling with the question of how to govern India.
The contributors, presenting a balance of established academics and early career researchers, present an original and succinct account of the significance of each leading work. They draw upon the context in which it was written, contemporary literature and more modern academic analysis of the work and its author(s).
--Dan Ernst. TOC after the jump.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Magna Carta: the soul of the British constitution
Robert Craig
Chapter 2: Sir John Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae and The Governance of England
Paul Raffield
Chapter 3: Sir Edward Coke’s The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
Glenn Burgess
Chapter 4: The Petition of Right
Ian Ward
Chapter 5: The Instrument of Government of 1653
Blair Worden
Chapter 6: The Toleration Act and the Confessional State
Mark Goldie
Chapter 7: The Act of Settlement 1701
Chris Monaghan
Chapter 8: 1707 Union Between England and Scotland
Elizabeth Wicks
Chapter 9: Bolingbroke’s Remarks on the History of England and Dissertation upon Parties
Max Skjönsberg
Chapter 10: Entick v Carrington
Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE
Chapter 11: William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England
Max Skjönsberg
Chapter 12: Jean-Louis de Lolme, The Constitution of England (1775)
Angus Harwood Brown
Chapter 13: Mary Wollstonecraft on the Constitution
Sylvana Tomaselli
Chapter 14: Edmund Burke’s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
Max Skjönsberg
Chapter 15: The depiction of the British constitution in caricature, 1784-1819
Chris Monaghan and Robert Thomas
Chapter 16: Thomas Erskine May, A Treatise Upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament
Colin Lee
Chapter 17: The Government of India Act 1858
N.C. Fleming
Chapter 18: Comparative Perspectives on the Historical Legacy of the English Constitution
Anne Twomey
