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Beyond Magna Carta : a constitution for the United Kingdom /
"In this work Dr Blick argues that the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, which falls in 2015, should be the occasion for a reassessment of the past, present and future of the UK constitution. He considers a series of historical documents from Anglo-Saxon times onwards, amongst which Magna Carta...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Hart Publishing,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1. Introduction; The 'Vow'; Constitutional Perceptions; PART I: The Written Constitutional Tradition; 2. Before Magna Carta: Early Law Codes and Charters; The Ethelbert Law Code; Anglo-Saxon Codes After Ethelbert; Post-Conquest Texts; 3. Magna Carta: The Life, Death and Afterlife of a Text; The Magna Carta Moment; The 1215 Text; Magna Carta After 1215; The Global Status of Magna Carta; 4. Revolutionary Century; The Petition of Right 1628; Blueprints: The Army and the Levellers; Constitutions Under Cromwell.
- The Bill of Rights 1689The Act of Settlement 1701: Alternative Constitutional Model?; 5. Union and Parliament; The Creation of a Union; Great Britain and Ireland; Albert Venn Dicey and Parliamentary Sovereignty; The Parliament Act 1911; PART II: A System in Turmoil; 6. The Dynamic Constitution; Constitution and Society; Parliament; The Civil Service; The Process of Change; 7. European Integration and its Consequences; European Integration and the UK Constitution; The European Communities Act 1972; The Rise of the Referendum: 1975 to the Present; The Fracturing of Collective Responsibility.
- 8. The Multination StateDevolution and its Implications; England Left Behind; Local Government in England; The English Question; 9. The Rule of Law, Human Rights and Constitutional Conflict; The Rule of Law in the United Kingdom; The Human Rights Act; Protected Rights, their Limitations and their Impact; A Clash of Models; 10. Direction of Travel; Codifying Convention and Limiting the Royal Prerogative; A New Model?; A Written Constitution: Proposals and Drafts; Practical Steps: Gordon Brown and Beyond; PART III: A Constitution for the United Kingdom.
- 11. Advocating and Creating a Written ConstitutionThe Positive Case for a Written Constitution; The Negative Case for a Written Constitution; Creating a Constitution; Preparatory Steps and Composition of a Convention; Remit, Working Methods and Ratification of the Text; 12. The Constitution; Presentation, Writing Style and Preamble; A Federal Union; The UK Executive; Parliament After Sovereignty; The Composition of Parliament; Electing Parliament; Parliament and Accountability; Fundamental Rights; The Courts, the Legal System and Constitutional Review; Changing the Constitution.