📚 Constitutional History

Framework documents and the fights around them: framing, amendment and interpretation across the centuries.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject constitutional history in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Constitution of the United States and related documents	United States	1787	146
	Constitution d'Athènes	Aristotle	1891	60
	The English constitution	Walter Bagehot	1867	58
	Constitution de l'Angleterre	Jean Louis de Lolme	1774	39
	Constitution	India	1947	39
	The rise and progress of the English constitution	Creasy, Edward Shepherd Sir	1853	22
	An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States	Charles Austin Beard	1913	18
	Liberty and Union	Edgar J. McManus	2013	18
	The growth of the English constitution from the earliest times	Edward Augustus Freeman	1872	17
	The constitutional history of England from the accession of Henry VII to the death of George II	Henry Hallam	1827	15
	The constitutional history of England	Henry Hallam	1841	15
	The constitutional history of England since the accession of George the Third, 1760-1860	Thomas Erskine May	1861	15
	Mediaeval Germany, 911-1250	Geoffrey Barraclough	1938	15
	The government of Canada	Robert MacGregor Dawson	1946	15
	Shh! We're Writing the Constitution	Jean Fritz	1987	14
	Constitution	California.	1850	13
	History of the origin, formation, and adoption of the Constitution of the United States	George Ticknor Curtis	1854	12
	A student's manual of English constitutional history	D. J. Medley	1894	12
	The Canadian Constitution	Adam Dodek	2013	12
	Studies in the constitutional history of Tennessee	Joshua W. Caldwell	1875	11
	Handbuch der griechischen Staatsalterthümer	Gilbert, Gustav	1881	11
	Englische Verfassungsgeschichte.	Rudolf Gneist	1822	10
	English constitutional history from the Teutonic conquest to the present time	Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead	1880	10
	A handbook of Greek constitutional history	A. H. J. Greenidge	1896	10
	Der Staat des hohen Mittelalters	Heinrich Mitteis	1944	10
	A march of liberty	Melvin I. Urofsky	1987	10
	History of the Anglo-Saxons	Sir Francis Palgrave K.H.	1800	9
	The evolution of the Constitution of the United States	Sydney George Fisher	1897	9
	The American Constitution	Alfred Hinsey Kelly	1948	9
	We the People	Peter Spier	1920	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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