The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of the English Government

• Jean Louis De Lolme (author)
• David Lieberman (introduction)

The Constitution of England is one of the most distinguished eighteenth-century treatises on English political liberty. Like Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) and Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), De Lolme’s account of the English system of government exercised an extensive influence on political debate in Britain, constitutional design in the United States during the Founding era, and the growth of liberal political thought throughout the nineteenth century.