Table of Contents

Preface PART 1 EXPLORING THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND Ancient Constitutions: Politics and the Past The Ancient Constitution of England Problems and Implications PART 2 THE COMMON LAW MIND AND THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL DEBATE Some Historiographical Perspectives The Elements of Consensus in Jacobean England Making Consensus Work Towards Breakdown: 'New Counsels' and the Dissolution of Consensus Epilogue: The Crisis of the Common Law.

About the Author

Glenn Burgess is Professor of History at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of The Politics of the Ancient Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought 1603-1642 (1992); Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution (1996); British Political Thought 1500-1660 (2009); and many articles, essays and edited collections.