ABSTRACT
Governments everywhere have obtained by constitutional means powers which those men had meant to deny them. The first attempt to secure individual liberty by constitutions has evidently failed. Constitutionalism means limited government. But the interpretation given to the traditional formulae of constitutionalism has made it possible to reconcile these with a conception of democracy according to which this is a form of government where the will of the majority on any particular matter is unlimited. The most serious effect of the splitting up among several specialisms of what was once a common field of inquiry, however, is that it has left a no-man’s-land, a vague subject sometimes called ‘social philosophy’.
