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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... 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 ...
... 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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... responsibility or as the doctrine of responsible government. For now, the most important thing to note about the rule is that it stipulates that the government is constitutionally responsible to Parliament. The extreme step of forcibly ...
... responsibility or as the doctrine of responsible government. For now, the most important thing to note about the rule is that it stipulates that the government is constitutionally responsible to Parliament. The extreme step of forcibly ...
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... responsible to Parliament: all government ministers are constitutionally responsible to Parliament. Votes of no confidence and prime ministerial resignations are relatively rare but, in addition to providing the occasional drama of high ...
... responsible to Parliament: all government ministers are constitutionally responsible to Parliament. Votes of no confidence and prime ministerial resignations are relatively rare but, in addition to providing the occasional drama of high ...
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... responsible to a political institution such as a Parliament. Most Western constitutions may recognise what I am calling the reality of government but they do not acton it in the way that the British constitution does. Rather than ...
... responsible to a political institution such as a Parliament. Most Western constitutions may recognise what I am calling the reality of government but they do not acton it in the way that the British constitution does. Rather than ...
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... responsibility are so familiar to us in Britain and form such a central component of our political experience and expectations that we are in danger of assuming that they are shared everywhere. However, such an assumption would be ...
... responsibility are so familiar to us in Britain and form such a central component of our political experience and expectations that we are in danger of assuming that they are shared everywhere. However, such an assumption would be ...
Inhalt
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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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