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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... liberalism is a term broad enough to accommodate a bewildering range of positions, from the neo-Conservative libertarianism of a Ross Perot or a Pat Buchanan to the social welfarism of a Gordon Brown, and just as socialism covers a wide ...
... liberalism is a term broad enough to accommodate a bewildering range of positions, from the neo-Conservative libertarianism of a Ross Perot or a Pat Buchanan to the social welfarism of a Gordon Brown, and just as socialism covers a wide ...
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... liberals everywhere'.18 As Vernon Bogdanor has suggested, 'most educated Englishmen of his day would almost certainly have agreed'.19 Even into the 1950s, it was commonplace on both the political left and right for the British ...
... liberals everywhere'.18 As Vernon Bogdanor has suggested, 'most educated Englishmen of his day would almost certainly have agreed'.19 Even into the 1950s, it was commonplace on both the political left and right for the British ...
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... liberal reformism of Charter 8821 to the right-wing critiques of frustrated politicians and journalists alike.22 Remarkably, among the most persistent advocates for constitutional change have been the judges. For a quarter of a century ...
... liberal reformism of Charter 8821 to the right-wing critiques of frustrated politicians and journalists alike.22 Remarkably, among the most persistent advocates for constitutional change have been the judges. For a quarter of a century ...
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... liberals everywhere'.34 Rather, they turned principally to the United States and to Germany. What they wanted were ... liberal exemplars had, by the 1990s, become the US and the German constitutions rather than the British.36 Aside ...
... liberals everywhere'.34 Rather, they turned principally to the United States and to Germany. What they wanted were ... liberal exemplars had, by the 1990s, become the US and the German constitutions rather than the British.36 Aside ...
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... below. 39 J Gray, 'After the New Liberalism', in his Enlightenment's Wake(London, Routledge, 1995), at 120. 41 In addition to these four, aspects of Paul Craig's 10 On the PoliticalConstitution II THE MODEL OF LEGAL CONSTITUTIONALISM.
... below. 39 J Gray, 'After the New Liberalism', in his Enlightenment's Wake(London, Routledge, 1995), at 120. 41 In addition to these four, aspects of Paul Craig's 10 On the PoliticalConstitution II THE MODEL OF LEGAL CONSTITUTIONALISM.
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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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