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Author | : Cris Shore |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000169189 |
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The Crown and Constitutional Reform is an innovative, interdisciplinary exchange between experts in law, anthropology and politics about the Crown, constitutional monarchy and the potential for constitutional reform in Commonwealth common law countries. The constitutional foundation of many Commonwealth countries is the Crown, an icon of ultimate authority, at once familiar yet curiously enigmatic. Is it a conceptual placeholder for the state, a symbol of sovereignty or does its ambiguity make it a shapeshifter, a legal fiction that can be deployed as an expedient mask for executive power and convenient instrument for undermining democratic accountability? This volume offers a novel, interdisciplinary exchange: the contributors analyse how the Crown operates in the United Kingdom and the postcolonial settler societies of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In doing so, they examine fundamental theoretical questions about statehood, sovereignty, constitutionalism and postcolonial reconciliation. As Queen Elizabeth II’s long reign approaches its end, questions about the Crown’s future, its changing forms and meanings, the continuing value of constitutional monarchy and its potential for reform, gain fresh urgency. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.
Author | : Simeon C. R. McIntosh |
Publisher | : Ian Randle Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789768167286 |
Download Caribbean Constitutional Reform Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This is the first book to be written on Caribbean constitutional theory. In the continuing discourse and emergent project of constitutional reform in the Commonwealth Caribbean, it examines the origins of the Independence Constitutions across the Commonwealth Caribbean and traces the region's constitutional development from the time of the emancipation of slavery through to independence. At its core is the premise that constitutional reform must necessarily result in a redefining of West Indian political identity. The theme throughout the book is the fact that the written constitutions of the Caribbean all have their origin in the British Parliament and the unwritten English constitution that has evolved over centuries. The existing constitutions were all the result of the collaborative efforts of the region's political elite and British officials, with no participation from the West Indian people. The Crown is still claimed and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council remains the final appellate court. In the result, political independence has simply meant that the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean are independent subjects of the Crown rather than colonial subjects. The book begins with the process of 'lawful devolution of sovereignty' and the origins of the sovereign states of the Commonwealth Caribbean and proceeds to address the theoretical issues of founding and amendability as well as such pressing issues about the relationship between a prime minister and a head of state in a parliamentary republic and electoral reform. An entire chapter is devoted to the Bill of Rights and addresses the fundamental rights and freedoms preserved in Caribbean Bills of Rights as well as the controversial and paradoxical Savings Clauses, which in and of themselves might justify the rewriting of the fundamental rights provisions of Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutions. Caribbean Constitutional Reform offers a philosophical justification for the establishment of a Caribbean Supreme Court based on the idea of sovereignty and the right of a people to define themselves. This work makes the first definitive step to addressing these critical issues in Caribbean constitutional theory and sets the stage for a 'new constitutional discourse' shaped by a Caribbean court of final appeal. "
Author | : Cris Shore |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108496466 |
Download The Shapeshifting Crown Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Crown is the bedrock of Westminster-style democracies, yet its meanings, powers and effects are opaque and little understood.
Author | : Richard Holme |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 1988-11-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 134919543X |
Download Time for a New Constitutional Change Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A group of essays, many given at the annual Scarman seminar run by the Constitutional Reform Centre in 1987-88, and now published to coincide with the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights, re-examining the principles and practice of the constitution since 1688.
Author | : Emmett Macfarlane |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1442628731 |
Download Constitutional Amendment in Canada Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Constitutional Amendment in Canada is the first volume to focus solely on the implications of the amending formula in Canada.
Author | : William Reynell Anson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Law and Custom of the Constitution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Nigel Forman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134581734 |
Download Constitutional Change in the UK Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The years since New Labour came to power in 1997 have seen changes to the British institutions of political power on an unprecedented scale. The reforms have been widespread, ranging from devolution of power in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, to the reform of the House of Lords and the changing role of the Monarchy. This book is the first to examine these changes collectively and in detail, placing each in its historical context, analysing problems, solutions and what the future holds for this ambitious period of reforms. The book is comprehensive in coverage, and accessibly written. As such it should be the ideal resource for undergraduate students of British Politics seeking to make sense of this complex subject.
Author | : James Murdoch |
Publisher | : Glasgow : Blackie 1885. |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
Download A History of Constitutional Reform in Great Britain and Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : F. N. Forman |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415230353 |
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This book seeks to outline the most important issues in constitutional change in the UK ranging from the historical foundations of the modern-day British system, to the future, as power in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is devolved.
Author | : Rodney Brazier |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Download Constitutional Reform Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the current debate about constitutional reform. Included in this new edition is a chapter on the Labour Government's plans to reform the system of government.