O volume I da História da Inglaterra e o debate constitucional inglês: Hume contra a ideia de lei fundamental

In The History of England’s first volume, Hume addresses three important topics in English history in terms of how they have been interpreted and mobilized by disputing parties in the English constitutional debate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By reconstructing Hume’s position regarding these topics (the Saxon constitution, the Norman Conquest and the Magna Carta), I intend to show how Hume refuses the idea of fundamental law that was at the heart of this debate, where upon his own conception of law as a social institution emerges.