American Influence on British Federal Systems

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. 1937 to 1787, Dr. VII
4. Contents XVII
5. Part One. The Background of Political, Economic, and Social Ideas behind the Constitution
6. The Fundamental Law behind the Constitution of the United States 3
7. The Constitution and the Courts: a Reexamination of the Famous Case of Dr. Bonham 15
8. The Beginnings of Representative Government in England 25
9. The Theory of Balanced Government 37
10. European Doctrines and the Constitution 51
11. Mercantilism: the Old English Pattern of a Controlled Economy 63
12. English and French Industrial History After 1540 in Relation to the Constitution 79
13. The Concepts of Democracy and Liberty in the Eighteenth Century 105
14. The Appeal to Reason and the American Constitution 121
15. The Puritan Background of the First Amendment 131
16. Philosophical Differences between the Constitution and the Bill of Rights 143
17. Part Two. The Constitution and Its Influence upon American Thought
18. Historiography and the Constitution 159
19. The Path of Due Process of Law 167
20. Minority Rule and the Constitutional Tradition 191
21. The Constitution as the American Social Myth 209
22. Constitutional History and the Higher Law 225
23. Constitutional Democracy: a Nineteenth-Century Faith 247
24. Part Three. E Repercussions of the Constitution outside the United States
25. The Constitutional Cult in the Early Nineteenth Century 261
26. The Holy Roman Empire versus the United States: Patterns for Constitution-Making in Central Europe 271
27. The Influence of the American Constitution on the Weimar Constitution 285
28. American Influence on British Federal Systems 297
29. The Judicial Interpretation of the Canadian Constitution 315
30. The Frontier and the Constitution in South Africa 329
31. Federalism in Latin America 341
32. The Origins of Federalism in Mexico 349
33. Federalism in Brazil 367
34. Epilogue 385
35. Afterthoughts on Constitutions 387
36. Index 401