From: Michigan Law Review | Date: May 1, 1994| Author: Reid, Charles J., Jr. | COPYRIGHT 1994 Michigan Law Review Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Kenneth Pennington. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1993. Pp. xiii, 335. $40.

INTRODUCTION

Kenneth Pennington's(1) new book can fairly be called a tour de force. Pennington begins his book with a subtle and thorough examination of some of the basic elements of the constitutional order that first emerged in Western law in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- including theories of sovereignty, power, rights, and due process --...