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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Political Accountability 1 Political Accountability and the British Constitution 1 Political Accountability under Challenge 6 II The Model of Legal Constitutionalism The Six Tenets of Legal Constitutionalism What's Wrong with Legal ...
... Political Accountability 1 Political Accountability and the British Constitution 1 Political Accountability under Challenge 6 II The Model of Legal Constitutionalism The Six Tenets of Legal Constitutionalism What's Wrong with Legal ...
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Adam Tomkins. 1 On the PoliticalConstitution 'There are only two things that ever stop the government from doing anything: money or politics.'1 I THE IDEAL OF POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY Political Accountability and the British Constitution ...
Adam Tomkins. 1 On the PoliticalConstitution 'There are only two things that ever stop the government from doing anything: money or politics.'1 I THE IDEAL OF POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY Political Accountability and the British Constitution ...
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... political accountability around this realisation, the bulk of Western constitutional practice has in modern times tended to focus instead on legal controls. Ideals of the 'rule of law' or of respect for 'fundamental' or 'human' rights ...
... political accountability around this realisation, the bulk of Western constitutional practice has in modern times tended to focus instead on legal controls. Ideals of the 'rule of law' or of respect for 'fundamental' or 'human' rights ...
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... political experience and expectations that we are in danger of assuming that ... accountability in the United States, for example, in the traditions of many ... political accountability. Think, for example, of the protracted and hugely ...
... political experience and expectations that we are in danger of assuming that ... accountability in the United States, for example, in the traditions of many ... political accountability. Think, for example, of the protracted and hugely ...
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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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