According to the traditional understanding of American constitutional law, the Revolution produced a new conception of the constitution as a set of restrictions

Up to World War II and beyond, the British ruled over a vast empire. Modern western attitudes towards the imperial past tend either towards nostalgia for Britis

Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariabl

This book, first published in 1936, provides a comprehensive description and analysis of every constitutional aspect of British rule in India from 1600 to 1936.

Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitution