Table of Contents

1: D. J. Galligan and C. Palmer: Patterns of Constitutional Thought from Fortescue to Bentham 2: M.R.L.L. Kelly: Sir John Fortescue and the Political Dominium: The People, the Common Weal, and the King 3: Ian Williams: Edward Coke 4: Tom Sorell: Constitutions in Hobbes's Science of Politics 5: D. J. Galligan: The Levellers, the People, and the Constitution 6: Jean-Fabien Spitz: Locke's Contribution to the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Constitutionalism 7: J. C. Davis: Narrative Constitutionalism and the Kinetics of James Harrington's Oceana 8: John Adams: David Hume: Constitution by Convention 9: Wilfrid Prest: William Blackstone and the 'free Constitution of Britain' 10: Philip Schofield: Constitutions and the Classics: Jeremy Bentham 11: Giovanni Grottanelli de'Santi: Montesquieu 12: Ruhza Smilova: The General Will Constitution: Rousseau as a Constitutionalist 13: Raymond Kubben: L'abbé de Sieyès: Champion of National Representation, Father of Constitutions 14: Mila Versteeg: 'Perfection in Imperfection': Joseph de Maistre and the Limitations of Constitutional Design 15: Mark A. Graber: James Madison's Republican Constitutionalism 16: M.N.S. Sellers: The Constitutional Thought of Alexander Hamilton 17: Gerald Leonard: Jefferson's Constitutions 18: David Thomas Konig: John Adams, Constitution Monger 19: Richard Whatmore: Thomas Paine

About the Author

Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. He is also a Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College, Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Law at the Universita degli Studi di Siena, and a Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His works include Law and Society (OUP, 2005).