Generations

Cambridge University Press eBooks, pp. 131–132

Abstract

At the end of the sixteenth, and the beginning seventeenth century some communities and countries began experimenting with the new enlightened ideas and put fundamental orders and government instruments in place: precursors to written constitutions that were about to follow suit. Mostly these orders or instruments served as checks on monarchic power and were put in place (granted) by the monarch himself. They constitute the first generation of dedicated, written monarchical constitutions.

Authors 1

1. W.J.M. Voermans corresponding Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Universiteit Leiden