Essays on the history of parliamentary procedure : in honour of Thomas Erskine May /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: May, Thomas Erskine, 1815-1886 (honouree.), Evans, Paul, 1955- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017.
Colección:Hart studies in constitutional law ; v. 7.
Temas:
May, Thomas Erskine, > 1815-1886.
Great Britain. > Parliament > Rules and practice.
Great Britain. > Parliament. > House of Lords > History.
Great Britain. > Parliament.
Great Britain. > Parliament. > House of Lords.
Parliamentary practice > Great Britain > History.
Constitutional law > Great Britain.
Droit constitutionnel > Grande-Bretagne.
Legal history.
Constitutional & administrative law.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Constitutional law.
Parliamentary practice.
Great Britain.
History.
Rules.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the growth of many centuries
  • A sycophant of real ability : the career of Thomas Erskine May
  • Slumber and success : the House of Commons library after May
  • Magi or Mandarins : contemporary clerky culture
  • Persuading the House : the use of the Commons Journal as a source of precedent
  • Manuals before May : from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century
  • Parliamentary law in the eighteenth century : from commonplace to treatise
  • From manual to authority : the life and times of the Treatise
  • Controversy at the Antipodes (and elsewhere) : the international cousins of the Treatise
  • The principle of progress : May and procedural reform
  • May on money : supply proceedings and the functions of a legislature
  • A history of the standing orders
  • Pursuing the efficient despatch of business : the role of committees in procedural reform since 1900
  • Finding time : legislative procedure since May
  • Where did it all go right : developments in select committees, 1913-1960
  • A road not taken : select committees and the estimates, 1880-1904
  • Privilege : the unfolding debate with the courts
  • Is Lex Parliamentaria really law : the House of Commons as a legal system.

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