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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... Parliamentary Privilege and Eliot's Case Ship-money: R v Hampden II The Rise of the Republican Constitution The Development of the Neo-Roman Case The Emergence of Republican Accountability vii 10 10 25 33 33 33 38 40 46 46 52 57 57 61 ...
... Parliamentary Privilege and Eliot's Case Ship-money: R v Hampden II The Rise of the Republican Constitution The Development of the Neo-Roman Case The Emergence of Republican Accountability vii 10 10 25 33 33 33 38 40 46 46 52 57 57 61 ...
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... 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 Bibliography Index 94 95 98 ...
... 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 Bibliography Index 94 95 98 ...
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... parliamentary backing. Parliament is the institution through which the government must legislate;5 Parliament is the institution that controls the government's purse strings; and Parliament is the institution that will continuously ...
... parliamentary backing. Parliament is the institution through which the government must legislate;5 Parliament is the institution that controls the government's purse strings; and Parliament is the institution that will continuously ...
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... parliamentary system. His backbenchers would have revolted, or his coalition partners would have ushered him out the door in a desperate effort to move into the next election with a new face at the head of the old government. In ...
... parliamentary system. His backbenchers would have revolted, or his coalition partners would have ushered him out the door in a desperate effort to move into the next election with a new face at the head of the old government. In ...
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... parliamentary vote, it is under no obligation to present such a programme to the National Assembly in the first place.13 Further, the availability of censure motions is strictly curtailed, such that they may be passed only by an ...
... parliamentary vote, it is under no obligation to present such a programme to the National Assembly in the first place.13 Further, the availability of censure motions is strictly curtailed, such that they may be passed only by an ...
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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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