CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF ENGLAND. BY EDWARD WAVELL RIDGES, OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. LONDON: STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE, Law Publishers. PREFACE. AT the present day, when topics of constitutional and international law occupy so prominent a place in the public mind, and when events and changes of vast importance to the peace and prosperity, not only of individual nations, but of the world in general, are looming upon the political horizon, the study of the principles of liberty, by which England has been enabled to build up and maintain an Empire "broad based upon a people's will," to serve as a standing example to all nations and for all time of the triumph of liberty and freedom over despotism and tyranny, is of peculiar and absorbing interest. It is hoped that this book, the compilation of which has occupied the leisure hours of the author over a period of some three years, may enable the student of English Constitutional Law to obtain a comprehensive and succinct view of English legislative, executive, and judicial institutions, both at home and in the wider dominions and dependencies of the Crown over-sea, and Stevens Nov 05 10/5 |