Jean-Louis de Lolme

Jean-Louis de Lolme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi də lɔlm]) or Delolme [1] (1740 – 16 July 1806) was a Genevan and British political theorist and writer on constitutional matters, born in the then independent Republic of Geneva.

[2] However, it was termed by the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) as "wanting in breadth of view, being written before the period when constitutional questions were treated in a scientific manner".

De Lolme developed and refined his political thinking to a large extent in opposition to the more radical theory of direct democracy advocated by his compatriot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whom he accused of being unrealistic.

[2] In 1775, de Lolme found himself compelled to accept aid from a charitable society to enable him to return home.

[2] The work has been studied by French bourgeois revolutionary Madame Roland at the age of 22 and influenced many of the framers of the United States Constitution.

The title page of a 1789 edition of de Lolme's Constitution de l'Angleterre ( The Constitution of England ) [ 3 ]