Our Republican ConstitutionBloomsbury Publishing, 14.02.2005 - 168 Seiten This new book by Adam Tomkins sets out a radical vision of the British constitution. It argues that despite its outwardly monarchic form the constitution is profoundly informed, and indeed shaped, by values and practices of republicanism. The republican reading of the constitution presented in this book places political accountability at the core of the constitutional order. As such, Our Republican Constitution offers a powerful rejoinder to the current trend in legal scholarship that sees the common law and the courts, rather than Parliament, as the central players in holding government to account. The book further contends that while the constitution should be understood as having republican foundations, current constitutional practice is, in a number of respects, insufficiently republican in character. The book closes by outlining a programme of republican constitutional reform that is designed to secure genuinely responsible government. This is an original and provocative reinterpretation of the central themes of the British constitution, drawing on constitutional history (especially of the seventeenth century), political theory and public law. |
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... Authority and the Crown II Parliamentary Government Today The Worst-Case Diagnosis Re-assessing the Parliamentary Record Conclusion III A Republican Future? Prerogative Powers Open Government Parliament and Party The Crown IV Afterword ...
... Authority and the Crown II Parliamentary Government Today The Worst-Case Diagnosis Re-assessing the Parliamentary Record Conclusion III A Republican Future? Prerogative Powers Open Government Parliament and Party The Crown IV Afterword ...
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... authority. Turning instead to the courts to provide ways of holding the government to account endangers both democracy and effectiveness. No matter how democracy is defined, judges can never hope to match the democratic legitimacy of ...
... authority. Turning instead to the courts to provide ways of holding the government to account endangers both democracy and effectiveness. No matter how democracy is defined, judges can never hope to match the democratic legitimacy of ...
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... Authority and the Office of Fair Trading. Public inquiries provide for a further series of ways in which government may be subjected to scrutiny, sometimes of the most penetrating and politically damaging nature.69Finally, there are ...
... Authority and the Office of Fair Trading. Public inquiries provide for a further series of ways in which government may be subjected to scrutiny, sometimes of the most penetrating and politically damaging nature.69Finally, there are ...
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... authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well being of the country, for the ...
... authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well being of the country, for the ...
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... authority may (for example) withdraw a certain welfare benefit from a person only after giving that person an opportunity to make representations to the authority, and a public authority withdraws the benefit from someone without giving ...
... authority may (for example) withdraw a certain welfare benefit from a person only after giving that person an opportunity to make representations to the authority, and a public authority withdraws the benefit from someone without giving ...
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2 Republican Constitutionalism | 33 |
3 The Making of the Republican Constitution | 67 |
4 Republican Constitutional Reform | 115 |
Bibliography | 143 |
Index | 153 |
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