What's Wrong with the British Constitution? - Mclean, Iain

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Résumé :

• Table of Contents


• Preface


• Contents


• List of Tables


• Part I Introduction


• 1: The English Public Lawyers' Constitution


• 2: A Social-science-based Alternative - Veto Player Theory


• Part II The Constitution from Below


• 3: Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan: 1707 and 1800: a Treaty (Mostly) Honoured and a Treaty Broken


• 4: Iain McLean and Jennifer Nou: Why Should we be Beggars with the Ballot in our Hand? The 1909 Budget and the House of Lords


• 5: Iain McLean and Tom Lubbock: The Curious Incident of the Guns in the Night Time - Curragh, Larne and the Constitution


• Appendix to Chapter 5. How Much did Bonar Law Know about the Larne Gun-running?


• 6: The Contradictions of Professor Dicey


• 7: Causes and Consequences of the Unionist Coup d'?(c)tat


• Part III The Erosion of Diceyan Ideology


• 8: The Impact of UK Devolution


• 9: The Impact of Europe


• 10: The Impact of Human Rights


• a) Appendix to Chapter 10. European Convention on Human Rights and Protocols Adopted by the United Kingdom as of 2008.


• Part IV Things to Leave out of a Written Constitution


• 11: Unelected Chambers


• 12: Monarchs


• a) Appendix to Chapter 12. 'The Constitutional Position of the Sovereign': Letters Between King George V and Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, Autumn 1913


• 13: Established Churches


• Part V Things to Put In


• 14: We the People


• Dramatis Personae


• References


• Index