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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... reform that is, in each respect, radically critical of orthodoxy. The book opens with an exposition of what I perceive to be the currently dominant view of the British constitution as it is discussed, analysed and taught by lawyers. I ...
... reform that is, in each respect, radically critical of orthodoxy. The book opens with an exposition of what I perceive to be the currently dominant view of the British constitution as it is discussed, analysed and taught by lawyers. I ...
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... Reform I A Warning to Legal Constitutionalists The Independence of the Judiciary Judicial Authority and the Crown II Parliamentary Government Today The Worst-Case Diagnosis Re-assessing the Parliamentary Record Conclusion III A ...
... Reform I A Warning to Legal Constitutionalists The Independence of the Judiciary Judicial Authority and the Crown II Parliamentary Government Today The Worst-Case Diagnosis Re-assessing the Parliamentary Record Conclusion III A ...
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... Reform (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1993) and A Barnett, This Time: Our Constitutional Revolution (London, Vintage, 1997). 22 See, eg, L Hailsham, The Dilemma of Democracy: Diagnosis and Prescription (London, Collins, 1978) and FMount, The ...
... Reform (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1993) and A Barnett, This Time: Our Constitutional Revolution (London, Vintage, 1997). 22 See, eg, L Hailsham, The Dilemma of Democracy: Diagnosis and Prescription (London, Collins, 1978) and FMount, The ...
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... reform argument of the Charter 88 liberals, who wanted much the same for Britain as the post-Communist states of eastern Europe wanted for themselves; the juristocratic argument for a Bill of Rights; the regional pressures within the ...
... reform argument of the Charter 88 liberals, who wanted much the same for Britain as the post-Communist states of eastern Europe wanted for themselves; the juristocratic argument for a Bill of Rights; the regional pressures within 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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