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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... position . The first is that it is simply wrong , empirically . In Britain we do not owe our freedom only to the courts . Parliament has frequently legislated , often in face of overt judicial hostility , to extend liberty , whether it ...
... position , a limitation that he inherited from his mentors Robson and Jennings . This is that the argument presented in ' The Political Constitution ' , for all its passionate rhetoric , was in constitu- tional terms wholly descriptive ...
... position — the common law orthodoxy - is perhaps most clearly articulated in a recent paper by Paul Craig.7 In his own words , the essence of Professor Craig's argument is that in a series of cases ' the courts have been forced to draw ...
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Preface | 1 |
The Model of Legal Constitutionalism | 10 |
Republican Constitutionalism | 33 |
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