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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... legal constitutionalism'. Chapter one sets out the various tenets of legal constitutionalism and offers a detailed and critical analysis. For all its popularity among public lawyers (both academic and judicial), the model of legal ...
... legal constitutionalism'. Chapter one sets out the various tenets of legal constitutionalism and offers a detailed and critical analysis. For all its popularity among public lawyers (both academic and judicial), the model of legal ...
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... Law in the University of Glasgow. I am grateful to the Dean of my faculty ... constitutionalism were shaped in numerous ways through the feedback my ... Law School, the University of Aberdeen, Newcastle Law School, the University of ...
... Law in the University of Glasgow. I am grateful to the Dean of my faculty ... constitutionalism were shaped in numerous ways through the feedback my ... Law School, the University of Aberdeen, Newcastle Law School, the University of ...
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... Constitutionalism The Six Tenets of Legal Constitutionalism What's Wrong with Legal Constitutionalism? 2 Republican Constitutionalism I Republicanism and Constitutional Law The Shape of British Public Law Scholarship Republicanism to ...
... Constitutionalism The Six Tenets of Legal Constitutionalism What's Wrong with Legal Constitutionalism? 2 Republican Constitutionalism I Republicanism and Constitutional Law The Shape of British Public Law Scholarship Republicanism to ...
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... Constitution Threatened The Confirmation of the Republican Constitution Conclusion—Our Republican Constitution III An English or a British Republic? 4 Republican Constitutional Reform I A Warning to Legal Constitutionalists The ...
... Constitution Threatened The Confirmation of the Republican Constitution Conclusion—Our Republican Constitution III An English or a British Republic? 4 Republican Constitutional Reform I A Warning to Legal Constitutionalists The ...
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... legal controls. Ideals of the 'rule of law' or of respect for 'fundamental' or 'human' rights form the backbone of today's constitutionalism in both continental Europe and North America. Ideals such as these are generally enforceable in ...
... legal controls. Ideals of the 'rule of law' or of respect for 'fundamental' or 'human' rights form the backbone of today's constitutionalism in both continental Europe and North America. Ideals such as these are generally enforceable in ...
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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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