First published in 1939 Parliament sought to analyse the parliamentary institutions of the United Kingdom as pieces of constitutional machinery.

Sir Ivor Jennings' classic account of the evolution of Cabinet government in England.

Originally published in 1962, this is the final volume of Party Politics following Appeal to the People and The Growth of Parties, which appeared in 1960 and 1961. In it Sir Ivor Jennings analyses the nature of politics by discussing some of the political ideas such as Church and King, liberty, nationalism, imperialism, free trade and the welfare state, which were instrumental in shaping the British political system. The three volumes of Party Politics complete the survey of British political institutions which Sir Ivor Jennings began with Parliament and Cabinet Government. At the time of...

Originally published in 1960, this was the first of three volumes on 'Party Politics'. The whole work was the conclusion of Sir Ivor Jenning's standard survey of English constitutional and political practice begun with Cabinet Government (3rd edition, 1959) and continued in Parliament (2nd edition, 1957). Party Politics as a whole dealt with topics which must be seen as a continuous development since 1688. Like the companion volumes it benefited from Sir Ivor's unique combination of talents: knowledge of the law; knowledge of the history which produced the law, and personal knowledge of the...

This 1961 text is the second volume of Party Politics, following Appeal to the People which appeared in 1960. It is an historical analysis of the nature, growth and activity of organised political parties in England, from the parliamentary divisions of the Civil War to the general election of 1959. Sir Ivor Jennings shows that party conflict has roots going very far back in English history, though the decisive or formative stages were reached comparatively recently. But this ample and very readable history emphasises above all that English politics, in all their strangeness as well as their...

This book offers an introduction to the British Constitution, providing a simple and reliable account of its growth and functioning.

During his lifetime, Sir Ivor Jennings (1903 1965) was well known as the author of several standard books on constitutional law. He acted as constitutional adviser to the governments of Ceylon and Pakistan and was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ceylon. This 1956 book followed in the tradition of his earlier The British Constitution and is a clear statement by an expert with a characteristically practical point of view. It is principally concerned with a practical problem: what constitution shall be given to a new country about to govern itself for the first time? Published at a time...

Die fortlaufende Entwicklung der ungeschriebenen britischen Verfassung - bzw. vor 1707 der englischen Verfassung - seit der Normannischen Erobe- rung im Jahre 1066 sowie das reichhaltig vorhandene einschlagige Doku- mentenmaterial in einem Lande, das seither niemals wieder von Invasoren uberrannt worden ist, bietet Moglichkeiten zur Erforschung der Wissen- schaft des offentlichen Rechts, die nur selten ausgenutzt worden sind. Diese Art akademischer Ubung ware, hatte man sie durchgefuhrt, in den vergan- genen vierzig Jahren von groem praktischen Wert gewesen. Bis zum Jahre 1919 hatte man...