Books The Struggle for Sovereignty by Joyce Lee Malcolm (Author)

Joyce Lee Malcolm is a renowned historian and constitutional scholar specializing in British and Colonial American history, particularly the development of individual rights. She is the Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at George Mason University School of Law. Malcolm has written extensively on topics such as gun control, the Second Amendment, and political history.

Regarding her book The Struggle for Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century English Political Tracts, which comes in two volumes, it studies the political ideas and writings from 17th-century England—a pivotal era of political upheaval including civil war and the eventual establishment of parliamentary sovereignty. The work examines key political tracts and documents that contributed to shaping modern concepts of sovereignty, governance, and rights. Malcolm's analysis sheds light on how political actors and thinkers of that time framed the struggle between monarchic authority and emerging parliamentary power, revealing foundational ideas behind constitutional government and individual liberties.