P. 119, last line but one of marginal note, for c. 84 read c. 83.

P. 357, note 3, for Wilson Judicature Act read Wilson, Judicature

Acts.

Anson's Parliament.

although the operation of these laws and customs nas to be explained as a matter of present living interest, it must be borne in mind that we are dealing with law and practice, and not with political science or political criticism.

from con

At starting, therefore, I have to distinguish the subject as distinct of which I propose to treat from the topics dealt with on the stitutional one hand in the classical constitutional histories of Mr. Hallam history and Dr. Stubbs, and on the other in the admirable account of the practical working of the English Constitution, by and politi1. cal science, Mr. Bagehot. I have to make it clear that I am dealing with rules of law, and with customs which have grown up around

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CHAPTER I.

THE PLACE OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN

JURISPRUDENCE.

to define

Ar the outset of a treatise on the English Constitution The need it is well to attempt some limitation or definition of the the subject. If the law and custom of the Constitution is to be subject, laid before the reader in an intelligible form, the writer has constantly to keep in mind the fact that, though nearly every law and every custom of the Constitution has a historysometimes a long and interesting history-yet it is the Constitution as it now exists, and not the history of Constitutional law, with which he has to deal. And, again, although the operation of these laws and customs has to be explained as a matter of present living interest, it must be borne in mind that we are dealing with law and practice, and not with political science or political criticism.

from con

At starting, therefore, I have to distinguish the subject as distinct of which I propose to treat from the topics dealt with on the stitutional one hand in the classical constitutional histories of Mr. Hallam history and Dr. Stubbs, and on the other in the admirable account of the practical working of the English Constitution, by and politi Mr. Bagehot. I have to make it clear that I am dealing with rules of law, and with customs which have grown up around

cal science.

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