THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND; OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT; IN WHICH IT IS COMPARED BOTH WITH THE REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE OTHER MONARCHIES OF EUROPE — By John Louis De Lolme — Early Edition, 1834 — Constitutional Monarchy, English Form of Government, England, United Kingdom Government History Publisher: J. Hatchard and Son, London (1834)
Finely bound in
period full decorative polished calf, with rich patterns in blind and gilt with
solid boards and binding and some light shelfwear. Slight wear to board corners. Raised bands on spine; marbled end papers. Pages are crisp and clean save for darkening
square on the title page due to frontispiece engraving. Light foxing on
frontispiece and last blank page. 507 pages. An 18th
century critical account of the English form of government. Jean-Louis de
Lolme (1741-1804) was a Swiss and English political theorist. His most famous
work is the Constitution de l'Angleterre, which appeared in English as The
Constitution of England (1771 in French, and later editions in English). In this
book, he advocated a constitutional form of government enshrining the principle
of balanced government, balancing the one, the few, and the many, or the ideas
of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. He criticized the power of British
parliament and made a grotesque expression which became proverbial, parliament
can do everything but make a woman a man and a man a woman.
