CONSTITUTIONALISM: ANCIENT AND MODERNMcIlwain, Charles HowardItem #: 57436 Published: Union; Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.; 2005. Subjects: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Reprint of the first edition. Upon publication The LawQuarterly Review praised this book, noting that "greatlearning is manifest in these pages" (cited in Marke).McIlwain examines the rise of constitutionalism from the"democratic strands" in the works of Aristotle and Cicerothrough the transitional moment between the medieval andmodern eras. He concludes with a discussion of the forces ofdespotism that were threatening constitutionally basedindividual freedom in the 1930s. One of the 20th century'smost distinguished scholars of Anglo-American constitutionalhistory, McIlwain was Eaton Professor of the Science ofGovernment in Harvard Univ. and the author of The High Courtof Parliament and Its Supremacy (1910) and The AmericanRevolution: A Constitutional Interpretation(1924). Reprintedby The Lawbook Exch. Ltd. Distributed by William S. Hein&Co.
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