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A classic treatise on Freemasonry and International Law, translated for the first time into English.

This monograph seeks to answer a few eternal questions, which have not been answered to their fullest extent. Why are some arrangements of the State suitable for certain peoples and not for others? What do Uganda, Fiji, Guyana, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia have in common? Upon the end of colonial rule, they all chose the classical Westminster model, opting for the republican form but hoping to do away with corruption and authoritarianism. However, they all ended up abandoning this form of government, as the situation got worse. Are there universal principles applicable to all States? What commonality ensures that no nation can transcend the very nature of man? If this commonality is not the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, what is it?

This monograph seeks to answer a few eternal questions, which have not been answered to their fullest extent. Why are some arrangements of the State suitable for certain peoples and not for others? What do Uganda, Fiji, Guyana, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia have in common? Upon the end of colonial rule, they all chose the classical Westminster model, opting for the republican form but hoping to do away with corruption and authoritarianism. However, they all ended up abandoning this form of government, as the situation got worse. Are there universal principles applicable to all States? What commonality ensures that no nation can transcend the very nature of man? If this commonality is not the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, what is it?

Professor Raymond Mangion, Head of the Department of Legal History and Methodology at the University of Malta, undertakes the unprecedented task in this book of drawing the constitutional and legislative landscape of Malta between the years 1914 and 1933. This he does with attention to detail, rigour and precision. He brings the story to life by interweaving social developments with the evolution of the constitutions and legislation of Malta. Professor Mangion provides the reader with a dazzling tapestry, full of detail and connections. Themes include the influence of outstanding personalities in law-making, the changing structure of the government, questions of language and the free trade issue. He masterfully demonstrates that the history of pre-Independence British Malta cannot be fully grasped without a clear understanding of the role played by its constitutions and legislation.

"Diego Fusaro's book invites us, in an original and striking fashion, to rethink and rediscover Marx following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The total domination of capitalism, the new world system, compels us to stop recounting edifying histories, even if it is the history of the 'freedom of the moderns'." André Tosel Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Nice "I share Diego Fusaro's analysis: whereas Marx by himself is not enough today, it is also not possible to understand, criticise and finally overcome the contradictions of triumphant capitalism without Marx. ... From Fusaro's text emerges a Marx who is freed from dogmatism, scientism and the myth of guaranteed progress, but not from the ability to criticise injustice and to propose a real emancipation of humankind. A non-Marxist Marx..." Gianni Vattimo Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Turin Co-Author of Hermeneutic Communism and former MEP "At a time when we are witnessing a centralisation of power, concentration of wealth and commodification of everyday life, returning to Marx is indispensable for a critical philosophy of the contemporary. Diego Fusaro's superbly written book provides an original reading of Marx's metaphysics and its paradoxical fusion of idealism with materialism. What emerges is an ethical vision of politics that seeks to overcome the fantasised necessity of capitalism in the direction of a 'cosmopolitan communitarianism as the truth of social life'. Whatever the problems and deficiencies of Marx (and they are legion), Fusaro's Marxian meditations deserve the widest possible hearing." Dr Adrian Pabst Reader in Politics, University of Kent, Co-Author of The Politics of Virtue: Post-liberalism and the Human Future