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The Mixed Constitution and the Common Law

DAVID LIEBERMAN
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law (Boalt Hall)
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September 1999

UC Berkeley Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 99-4


Abstract:
The "constitution of England" provided a model for the theory and design of liberal political systems throughout the eighteenth century (as is most clearly but not exclusively evidenced in the case of the political structures created for the states and federal governments in America after 1776). The article surveys the period's most influential interpretations of eighteenth century England's political system; examining, in turn, the constitutional analysis of such major figures as Bolingbroke, Montesquieu, Hume, Blackstone, DeLolme, John Adams and Thomas Paine. The article emphasizes and elucidates two important lines of development within this body of constitutional speculation. First, the shift from the more classical theory of England's mixed constitution to the newer conceptualization of England's separation of political powers. And second, the rival accounts of England's House of Commons, which provided the setting for more general debate concerning the nature of representative assemblies and their relationship to more direct forms of democratic government.

Both these developments came to occupy major importance in modern theories of constitutional democracy.


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Suggested Citation
Lieberman, David, "The Mixed Constitution and the Common Law" (September 1999). UC Berkeley Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 99-4. http://ssrn.com/abstract=184708