Author: Arthur MillsPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Colonial Constitutions: an Outline of the Constitutional History and Existing Government of the British Dependencies
Author: Arthur MillsPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents Relating to the Philippine Islands
Author: Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library ...: I.-P
Author: Dennis O'DonovanAustralia
Author: Sir Ernest ScottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521356210
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The New Zealand Legislative Council
Author: William Keith JacksonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487590490
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The New Zealand upper house, the Legislative Council (which bore a marked resemblance to its Canadian counterpart the Federal Senate) was abolished in 1950 in an action which represents one of the most clear-cut examples of pragmatic politics in New Zealand history. It was abolished by the essentially conservative National party (fundamentally committed to the bicameral principle), while the Labour party (formally committed to abolition) at first obstructed and then merely stood on the sidelines. New Zealand thus became the only democratic country in the world without either an upper house or a formal written constitution of any consequence. The author attempts both to explain this unusual development and to assess its consequences. The generally accepted view that the Legislative Council failed in 1892 is challenged, and the causes of the decline and failure are traced back to circumstances surrounding its original establishment in 1854. Subsequently, developments since 1950 are examined in the light of abolition. The author concludes that abolition represented the right policy undertaken for the wrong reasons and that ultimately it has made a greater contribution to constitutional change in the twenty years since 1950 than the chamber itself made in the last fifty years of its existence. The New Zealand Legislative Council, an analytical historical study of an institution, throws valuable light on the strengths and weaknesses of the bicameral principle and the consequences of abolishing a second chamber of Parliament. The book should prove useful to Political Science and History courses dealing with Commonwealth Parliamentary government, comparative institutions and constitutional law. It should also appeal to all those interested in the question of bicameral representation.
The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: A Theory of African Constitutionalism
Author: Berihun Adugna GebeyePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192646141
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A Theory of African Constitutionalism asks and seeks to answer why we need a new theoretical framework for African constitutionalism and how this could offer us better theoretical and practical tools with which to understand, improve, and assess African constitutionalism on its own terms. By locating constitutional studies in Africa within the experiences, interactions, and contestations of power and governance beginning in precolonial times, the book presents the development and transformation of African constitutional systems across time and place, along with the attendant constitutional designs and practices ranging from the nature and operation of the African state to its vertical and horizontal government structures, to its constitutional rights regime. This title offers both a theoretically and comparatively rich, historically and contextually informed, and temporally and spatially extensive account of the nature, travails, and incremental successes of African constitutionalism with detailed case studies from Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa. A Theory of African Constitutionalism provides scholars, policymakers, governments, and constitution builders in Africa and beyond with new insights for reimagining the purpose, substance, and scope of constitutions and constitutionalism.
Catalogue of the Library of the Parliament of Ontario
Author: Ontario. Legislative LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Governors and Settlers
Author: M. FrancisPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230375707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In nineteenth-century settler colonies such as Upper Canada, New South Wales and New Zealand, governors not only administered, they stood at the head of colonial society and ordered the festivities and ceremonies around which colonial life centred. Governors were expected to be repositories of political wisdom and constitutional lore. Governors and Settlers explores the public and private beliefs of governors such as Sir Thomas Brisbane, Sir John Colborne, Sir George Grey and Lord Elgin as they struggled to survive in colonial cultures which both deified and vilified their personal qualities.
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