![]() ![]() It was ravaged by civil war in the mid-1600s, leading to the adoption of the Instrument of Government and the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653. Even Great Britain, long fabled as the country without a codified constitution, was not immune to the “warlike pressure” of this period. In The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen, Colley describes how the modern nation-state – and modern constitutionalism – emerged from the smoke of the cannon fire that engulfed the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ![]() This claim raises an important question: What will today’s belligerent, combative politics in many countries mean for the future of liberal democracy, whose principles and values are arguably under siege like never before. LONDON – It is the crucible of war, Linda Colley argues, that forges constitutions. Jan-Werner Mueller, Democracy Rules, Allen Lane, London, 2021 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2021. Linda Colley, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World, Liveright, 2021. ![]() ![]()
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