Essays in history and political theory in honor of Charles Howard McIlwain

General notes

Preface signed: Carl Wittke "These essays were presented to Charles H. McIlwain on the occasion of the completion of his year of service as president of the American Historical Association." - Pref

Contents

God and the secular power, by Summerfield Baldwin.-"Non obstante" - a study of the dispensing of power of English kings, by Paul Birdsall.-The attitude of the English clergy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries towards the obligation of attendance on convocations and parliaments, by Dorothy B. Weske.-The struggle for the autonomy of the Church of England, by E. P. Chase.-Henry Parker and the theory of parliamentary sovereignty, by Margaret A. Judson.-The idea of majesty in Roman political thought, by F. S. Lear.-Attack of the common lawyers on the oath ex officio as administered in the ecclesiastical courts in England, by M. H. Maguire.-The concept of public opinion in political theory, by P. A. Palmer.-The trial of treason in Tudor England, by S. Rezneck.-The political and constitutional theory of Sir John Fortescue, by M. A. Shephard.-Parliamentary privilege in the empire, by Carl Wittke.-The early history of written constitutions in America, by B. F. Wright, jr