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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... Modern Law Review 471. 5 There are exceptions: these are considered in ch 4, below. 6 These words are taken from the Standing Order of the House of Commons that governs the powers of Departmental Select Committees (Standing Order No 152) ...
... Modern Law Review 471. 5 There are exceptions: these are considered in ch 4, below. 6 These words are taken from the Standing Order of the House of Commons that governs the powers of Departmental Select Committees (Standing Order No 152) ...
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... modern constitutions in the western world are not founded on an ideal of making government responsible to a political institution such as a Parliament. Most Western constitutions may recognise what I am calling the reality of government ...
... modern constitutions in the western world are not founded on an ideal of making government responsible to a political institution such as a Parliament. Most Western constitutions may recognise what I am calling the reality of government ...
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... Modern Law Review 744 and 'The Draft Constitution of the European Union' [2003] Public Law 571. 16 For a stimulating account, see C Harlow, 'Export, Import. The Ebb and Flow of English Public Law' [2000] Public Law 240. 17 C Dickens ...
... Modern Law Review 744 and 'The Draft Constitution of the European Union' [2003] Public Law 571. 16 For a stimulating account, see C Harlow, 'Export, Import. The Ebb and Flow of English Public Law' [2000] Public Law 240. 17 C Dickens ...
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... Modern legal constitutionalists believe that politics should be enclosed within what Martin Loughlin has described as 'the straitjacket of law':47 Once viewed as a noble craft, politics is now conceived as an activity in which the ...
... Modern legal constitutionalists believe that politics should be enclosed within what Martin Loughlin has described as 'the straitjacket of law':47 Once viewed as a noble craft, politics is now conceived as an activity in which the ...
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... Modern Law Review 463 and J Goldsworthy, 'Homogenising Constitutions' (2003)23 OxfordJournal of LegalStudies 483. 51 J Shklar, Legalism (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1964), at 111. 52 TRS Allan, Law, Liberty andJustice: The ...
... Modern Law Review 463 and J Goldsworthy, 'Homogenising Constitutions' (2003)23 OxfordJournal of LegalStudies 483. 51 J Shklar, Legalism (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1964), at 111. 52 TRS Allan, Law, Liberty andJustice: The ...
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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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