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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... prime minister James Callaghan fell. 3 Compare JHH Weiler, 'To be a European Citizen: Eros and Civilization', in his The Constitution of Europe (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999), at 329. 4 See G Marshall, 'The End of Prime ...
... prime minister James Callaghan fell. 3 Compare JHH Weiler, 'To be a European Citizen: Eros and Civilization', in his The Constitution of Europe (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999), at 329. 4 See G Marshall, 'The End of Prime ...
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Adam Tomkins. The Labour government led by prime minister James Callaghan fell in 1979 because it lost a vote of confidence in the House of Commons. Callaghan's successor as prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, reluctantly resigned from ...
Adam Tomkins. The Labour government led by prime minister James Callaghan fell in 1979 because it lost a vote of confidence in the House of Commons. Callaghan's successor as prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, reluctantly resigned from ...
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... prime minister's question time are no mere habits. The weekly half-hour that the prime minister must endure at the despatch box in the House of Commons is one of the most important ... prime minister The Ideal of PoliticalAccountability 3.
... prime minister's question time are no mere habits. The weekly half-hour that the prime minister must endure at the despatch box in the House of Commons is one of the most important ... prime minister The Ideal of PoliticalAccountability 3.
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... prime minister must report if he is to be permitted to continue in office. Traditions such as prime minister's question time and the doctrine of ministerial responsibility are so familiar to us in Britain and form such a central ...
... prime minister must report if he is to be permitted to continue in office. Traditions such as prime minister's question time and the doctrine of ministerial responsibility are so familiar to us in Britain and form such a central ...
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... prime minister is to be appointed by the President of the Republic, not by the National Assembly,12 and stipulates that the government is accountable to the National Assembly only in strictly limited ways. Thus, while a government must ...
... prime minister is to be appointed by the President of the Republic, not by the National Assembly,12 and stipulates that the government is accountable to the National Assembly only in strictly limited ways. Thus, while a government must ...
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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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