Our Republican ConstitutionBloomsbury Academic, 01.02.2005 - 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. |
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... find expression as rival policies , constitutional responsibility for which properly rests on the shoulders of our elected politicians . What's Wrong with Legal Constitutionalism ? This completes our examination of the six tenets of ...
... find . When Michelman applied his vision of republicanism to American constitutional practice he , like Sunstein , could find only one case that ought to have been decided differently , Michelman's candidate being Bowers v Hardwick.50 ...
... find a minister of the Crown , such as the home secretary , in contempt of court . On the face of it , it may seem absurd that such an apparently simple ques- tion should have proved so difficult that it required determination in the ...
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Preface | 1 |
The Model of Legal Constitutionalism | 10 |
Republican Constitutionalism | 33 |
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