SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA The Evolution of Constitutional Order Spontaneous order and analytical theories of the State in a critical perspective by Antonino Palumbo PhD 2000 © The moral right of the author has been asserted. Anyone who consults this thesis has to recognise that its copyright rests with the author. No quotation from the thesis, nor any information derived therefrom, may be published without the author’s prior, written consent.