How does one explain the resistance of the United Kingdom to the “continental” conception of human rights? This book responds to this question by suggesting that it was in the English legal thought of the seventeenth century that this particular English conception of liberty became fixed.
Keyword: Droit constitutionnel, histoire constitutionnelle anglaise du XVIIe siècle, philosophie des droits de l’homme, liberté, révolution, rule of law
