Book contents
- The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
- The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors’ Preface
- Part I Perspectives
- 1 The Historical Constitution
- 2 Law and the Constitution
- 3 Political Constitutionalism
- 4 The Economic Constitution
- 5 Religion and the Constitution to 1688
- 6 Religion and the Constitution since the Glorious Revolution
- 7 The Social Democratic Constitution
- 8 The Constitution of Rights
- 9 The People and the Constitution
- 10 Constitutional Theory and Thought
- Part II Actors and Institution
- Part III Politics
- Index
1 - The Historical Constitution
from Part I - Perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2023
Book contents
- The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
- The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors’ Preface
- Part I Perspectives
- 1 The Historical Constitution
- 2 Law and the Constitution
- 3 Political Constitutionalism
- 4 The Economic Constitution
- 5 Religion and the Constitution to 1688
- 6 Religion and the Constitution since the Glorious Revolution
- 7 The Social Democratic Constitution
- 8 The Constitution of Rights
- 9 The People and the Constitution
- 10 Constitutional Theory and Thought
- Part II Actors and Institution
- Part III Politics
- Index
Summary
All constitutions rely on history. Without constitutional history the political affairs of the United Kingdom would be unintelligible. As J. R. Seeley aphorised in his inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in 1885: ‘History without Political Science has no fruit; Political Science without History has no root.’
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023