Title page
Contents
1.1. Introduction 2
1.2. The Beginning: England 3
1.2.1. Limiting the Crown's authority: Magna Carta Libertatum 4
1.2.2. Specificity 7
1.2.3. Annual appropriations 8
1.2.4. Unity and universality 12
1.2.5. Clarifying the role of the legislature 13
1.2.6. Recapitulation 14
1.3. Propagation: from Autocracy to Democracy 14
1.3.1. Chronological overview 14
1.3.2. The final stone: France 19
1.3.3. One final look at England 23
References 27