Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-374) and index.
Preface / Glenn Burgess -- Introduction : the great unanswered question of the history of constitutional law -- 1. "To restrain the willfulness of kings" : John Calvin's theology of official disobedience -- 2. "To the uttermost of your powers" : the Marian exile and the broadening of the duty to resist tyranny -- 3. Into "the intellectual cupboard" : the duty to resist tyranny in Elizabethan England -- 4. The duty to resist tyranny during the English revolutionary period -- 5. The duty to resist tyranny from the restoration through the glorious revolution -- 6. Into the long eighteenth century -- 7. From the classroom into the courtroom -- 8. The duty to resist tyranny and the establishment of judicial review -- Conclusion : the duty to resist tyranny and the origins of judicial review