Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: The Constitution of Ancient Athens -- 1. Ancient Greece and American Constitutionalism -- 2. The Evolution of Athenian Democracy: Model and Contrast for American Democratic Development -- 3. The Empire of Reason: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle -- Part Two: The Constitution of Ancient Rome -- 4. Rome, America, and the Importance of Roman Law -- 5. Roman Law and American Law: Comparisons and Contrasts -- 6. Roman Law from the Monarchy to the Republic -- 7. The Republic in Decline and the Empire -- Part Three: The English Constitution and English Common Law -- 8. The Importance and Origins of the English Constitution -- 9. English Law from the Conquest to Magna Carta, 1066-1215 -- 10. From Magna Carta to the Origins of Parliament -- 11. Henry VII and the Foundations of Tudor Constitutionalism -- 12. Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, and the Tudor Constitutional Revolution -- 13. James I and the Start of the English Constitutional Crisis of the Seventeenth Century -- 14. From Civil War to Glorious Revolution -- 15. From Classical and Common Law Background to American Constitutionalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.