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Author: Ian Ward Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319966766 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 223
Book Description
This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English constitutional thought—Edmund Burke, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Walter Bagehot and Albert Venn Dicey. Stretching from the French Revolution to the death of Queen Victoria, their writing is both representative of and formative to the Victorian constitution. Ian Ward traces how constitutional writing changed over the course of the long nineteenth century, from the poetics of Burke and the romance of Macaulay, to the pragmatism of Bagehot and the jurisprudence of Dicey. A century on, our perception of the English constitution is still shaped by this contested history.
Author: Ian Ward Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319966766 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 223
Book Description
This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English constitutional thought—Edmund Burke, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Walter Bagehot and Albert Venn Dicey. Stretching from the French Revolution to the death of Queen Victoria, their writing is both representative of and formative to the Victorian constitution. Ian Ward traces how constitutional writing changed over the course of the long nineteenth century, from the poetics of Burke and the romance of Macaulay, to the pragmatism of Bagehot and the jurisprudence of Dicey. A century on, our perception of the English constitution is still shaped by this contested history.
Author: Victoria Publisher: ISBN: 9780644460033 Category : Constitutional law Languages : en Pages : 108
Book Description
Provides not only the text of the Constitution but also detailed notes which explain what is not written in the Constitution but are essential to its operation, such as how the Cabinet, Opposition, conventions and political parties fit into the structure.
Author: Nicholas Aroney Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521759188 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 697
Book Description
This book provides an engaging and distinctive treatment for anyone seeking to understand the significance and interpretation of the Constitution.
Author: Anthony King Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199232326 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria's reign. He argued that the late Victorian constitution was not at all what people thought it was. Anthony King argues that the same is true at the beginning of this century. Most people are aware that a series of major constitutional changes has taken place, but few recognize that their cumulative effect has been to change entirely the nature of Britain's constitutional structure. The old constitution has gone. The author insists that the new constitution is a mess, but one that we should probably try to make the best of. The British Constitution is neither a reference book nor a textbook. Like Bagehot's classic, it is written with wit and mordant humour - by someone who is a journalist and political commentator as well as a distinguished academic. The author maintains that, although the new British constitution is a mess, there is no going back now. 'As always', he says, 'nostalgia is a good companion but a bad guide.' Highly charged issues that remain to be settled concern the relations between Scotland and England and the future of the House of Lords. A reformed House of Lords, the author fears, could wind up comprising 'a miscellaneous assemblage of party hacks, political careerists, clapped-out retired or defeated MPs, has-beens, never-were's and never-could-possibly-be's'. The book is a Bagehot for the twenty-first century - the product of a lifetime's reflection on British politics and essential reading for anyone interested in how the British system has changed and how it is likely to change in future
Author: Ian Ward
Author: Ian Ward
Author: Godfrey Hugh Lancelot Le May
Author: Victoria
Author: Fellowship of Australian Writers. Victorian Section
Author: Thomas Howard Fellows
Author: Sir Zelman Cowen
Author: Nicholas Aroney
Author: Victorian Colleges and Universities Staff Association
Author: Sir John Quick
Author: Anthony King