君民共治和君主独治——读福蒂斯丘《论英格兰的法律与政制》

Government by a Monarch and People and Government by a Monarch——Reading"On Laws and Governance of England"

本文为阅读福蒂斯丘的《论英格兰的法律与政制》的读后感,集中探讨了福蒂斯丘在书中重点讨论的君民共治和君主独治的问题。文章分析了福蒂斯丘进行论证的方式,并从历史的角度追溯了英国宪政发展的历史,为读者理解福蒂斯丘的这两个术语提供了一些背景性的知识。

This essay was written after reading Fortescue's On the Laws and Governance of England,whose Chinese version had been published by the Peking University Press in 2008.It focuses on the two key terms in his works, i.e."political and royal"and"royal".Fortescue's arguments are carefully analysed in this essay;additionally,it also traces the constitutional history of England briefly,upon which readers can understand the two terms better.