System of government and political parties in the British constitutional thought during the last third of the XVIIIth Centruy (from Blackston to Paley)

Authors

  • Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna Universidad de Oviedo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i1.112

Keywords:

Paley, Pitt, Fox, Paine, Burke, James III, Blackstone, political parties, government, cabinet system

Abstract

The article explains the evolution of the ideas of “political party” and “system of government” in the last years of the XVIIIth century English Constitutional Thought. Even when some political thinkers, such as Blackstone or Paley, wrote nothing about political parties (due to his idea of balanced constitution), other thinkers (more close to the political reality of the English Government) had them into account. Burke and Paine described a system of government different of that which could be read in the statute law; a “real” system where political parties had and important role.

Submission date:18/11/1999
Acceptance date:13/02/2000

Author Biography

Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Universidad de Oviedo

Catedrático de Derecho Constitucional de la Universidad de Oviedo e Investigador del Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII. Amplió estudios en las Universidades de Londres y París, así como en el Instituto Universitario Europeo de Florencia. Ha sido profesor invitado en el “El Colegio de México” y en diversas Universidades de Cuba, Argentina, Italia, Francia, Brasil y España. Entre su centenar de publicaciones destacan sus libros La Teoría del Estado en los orígenes del constitucionalismo hispánico (1983); Sistema de gobierno y partidos políticos: de Locke a Park (2002, traducido al italiano en 2007); El Conde de Toreno. Biografía de un liberal (2005); Asturianos en la política española (2006); y, Política y Constitución en España (1808-1978) (2007). Fundador y director de "Historia Constitucional", codirige también "Fundamentos”, y forma parte del consejo de redacción de varias revistas en España e Italia. Ha codirigido la colección "Clásicos Asturianos del Pensamiento Político” y en la actualidad dirige la colección “Clásicos Políticos”, editada por el Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales de Madrid, de cuyo consejo editorial forma parte.

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Issue

No. 1 (2000): Historia Constitucional N. 1 (2000)

Section

STUDIES

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