An innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century through to Charles I.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Fortescue's world; 2. St German's world; 3. Reformation and the body politic; 4. Commonwealth and common law; 5. Puritanism and Anglicanism; 6. James, kingship, and religion; 7. Law, politics, and Sir Edward Coke; 8. The constitutionalist revolution; Epilogue.