The historical constitution

Harshan Kumarasingham

doi:10.1017/9781009277778.003

The historical constitution

Harshan Kumarasingham

School of Social and Political Science

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Abstract

All constitutions rely on history. Without constitutional history the political affairs of the United Kingdom would be unintelligible. As J. R. Seeley aphorised in his inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in 1885: ‘History without Political Science has no fruit; Political Science without History has no root.’

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1. Exploring the Constitution
Editors	Harshan Kumarasingham, Peter Cane
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	1
Pages	3-34
Number of pages	32
ISBN (Electronic)	9781009277778
ISBN (Print)	9781009277785
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277778.003
Publication status	Published - 17 Aug 2023

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

history
law
politics
historiography
culture
intellectual history
government
society
constitutionalism
British history

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