Polity Atlas
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Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern

Charles Howard McIlwain · Cornell University Press · 1940

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Charles Howard McIlwain

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TheoryConstitutionalism is the idea that political power should be limited by a higher law; having a written constitution is neither necessary nor sufficient for it, since some regimes adopt constitutional forms without effective limits.