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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... neo - Roman or republican view , is equivalent to living in a state of slavery . It follows that , if you wish to ... Roman orator Cicero and of the Roman historians , Livy , Tacitus and Sallust , each of whose work was translated into ...
... neo - Roman argument was not the only one voiced in the Commons . While ( as we shall see ) it was to become ever more dominant in the parlia- ments of the early 1640s , in 1628 the neo - Roman argument had yet to achieve the influence ...
... Neo - Roman Case Whereas in the 1628 parliament the majority view had been that it was the judicial interpretation of the common law rather than the law itself that needed correction , by 1640 a remarkable transformation ... Neo-Roman Case.
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Preface | 1 |
The Model of Legal Constitutionalism | 10 |
Republican Constitutionalism | 33 |
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