The High Court of Parliament and Its Supremacy (1910)

Informationen zum Autor Charles Howard McIlwain [1871-1968] was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished scholars of Anglo-American constitutional history. He was the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government in Harvard University and the author of The High Court of Parliament and Its Supremacy (1910) and The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation (1924). Klappentext Highly acclaimed when it was published! this remains a classic. McIlwain [1871-1968]! a professor of history at Harvard University for more than three decades! developed-with a particular emphasis on Parliament's role as a judicial body-Pollock and Maitland's thesis from their landmark work The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895) that Parliament was not a legislature in the modern sense; it was an administrative and judicial instrument of the crown. Oliver Wendell Holmes praised the work in a May 8! 1918 letter to Harold J. Laski: "... it left me greatly admiring it as an altogether admirable piece of work. It also kept me keenly interested from beginning to end." Howe! Holmes-Laski Letters I:152-153. xxi! 408 pp. Reprint of the first edition.

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Highly acclaimed when it was published, this remains a classic. McIlwain [1871-1968], a professor of history at Harvard University for more than three decades, developed-with a particular emphasis on Parliament's role as a judicial body-Pollock and Maitland's thesis from their landmark work The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895) that Parliament was not a legislature in the modern sense; it was an administrative and judicial instrument of the crown. Oliver Wendell Holmes praised the work in a May 8, 1918 letter to Harold J. Laski: "... it left me greatly admiring it as an altogether admirable piece of work. It also kept me keenly interested from beginning to end." Howe, Holmes-Laski Letters I:152-153. xxi, 408 pp. Reprint of the first edition.