Athens, Rome, and England : America's constitutional heritage / Matthew A. Pauley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pauley, Matthew A., 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Law, Greek.

History.

United States.

Constitutional history--England.

England.

Roman law--History.

Roman law.

Law, Greek--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (256 pages))

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Griffon House Publications, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The U.S. Constitution influences nearly every aspect of our lives. But for all the fierce disputes about what the Constitution means, the historical foundations of America's legal and political institutions pass almost unnoticed today. This is a glaring oversight, one that clouds our understanding of the Constitution and of American law and politics in general. For the Constitution did not spring up suddenly in 1787. The framers were influenced at every turn by a tradition of constitutional development dating back to ancient times. Political scientist and legal scholar Matthew A. Pauley fills in the blanks in our understanding by chronicling the three most important influences on the American constitutional experience: ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and England. Pauley's masterful historical survey sheds new light on our system of representative democracy, our court structure, and our traditions of law-civil and criminal, public and private. No student of law or government can afford to ignore this highly readable, deeply informative work. Athens, Rome, and England adds immeasurably to our appreciation and understanding of the roots of the American Constitution and our legal and political system. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Constitution of Ancient Athens

1 Ancient Greece and American Constitutionalism 3

2 The Evolution of Athenian Democracy: Model and Contrast for American Democratic Development 11

3 The Empire of Reason: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle 23

Part 2 The Constitution of Ancient Rome

4 Rome, America, and the Importance of Roman Law 39

5 Roman Law and American Law: Comparisons and Contrasts 53

6 Roman Law from the Monarchy to the Republic 65

7 The Republic in Decline and the Empire 75

Part 3 The English Constitution and English Common Law

8 The Importance and Origins of the English Constitution 85

9 English Law from the Conquest to Magna Carta, 1066-1215 97

10 From Magna Carta to the Origins of Parliament 113

11 Henry VII and the Foundations of Tudor Constitutionalism 127

12 Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, and the Tudor Constitutional Revolution 141

13 James I and the Start of the English Constitutional Crisis of the Seventeenth Century 155

14 From Civil War to Glorious Revolution 165

15 From Classical and Common Law Background to American Constitutionalism 183.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Pauley, Matthew A., 1959- Athens, Rome, and England : America's constitutional heritage.

ISBN:

3316249

9781610170895

OCLC:

923180534

Access Restriction:

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