Demonstrates how constitutions evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they have functioned to advance empire as well as promote nations, and worked to exclude as well as liberate. LC is a brilliant historian. She starts here from the Corsican constitution of 1755.
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World
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Edition:Hardback978184668497511/03/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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