The Crown And Constitutional Reform

Author : Cris Shore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000169189
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crown and Constitutional Reform written by Cris Shore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kirk Peter Meighoo
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 976637337X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago written by Kirk Peter Meighoo and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean are all self-governing, determining their own futures. But some 40 years after gaining independence from Britain, the question remains whether these countries are truly democratic and whether the parliamentary and electoral systems adopted, are well suited to the Caribbean experience. Meighoo and Jamadar answer these questions in the negative. A true democracy, they argue, is one where the Legislature has the authority and the strength to make the Executive effectively accountable and responsible to it and where the electoral system results in the true practical separation of the Legislature and the Executive. Using Trinidad and Tobago as the model, Democracy and Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago offers an overview of the constitutional reform process in the Commonwealth Caribbean. In these young, postcolonial democracies, where party politics have had a negative impact on the process of democratic reform, the authors review the historical, political and cultural motivations that have spawned the most recent debates on constitutional reform; and more particularly on the proposals for parliamentary and electoral reform. The book concludes with a review of past proposals and recommendations, and puts forward the authors' own suggestions for reform. At a time when most of the Commonwealth Caribbean is undergoing a process of constitutional debate and change, this book makes a valuable contribution to the discussion and provides a basis for the informed citizen, student or pundit to judge the process of reform. "

Author : Simeon C. R. McIntosh
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789768167286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Constitutional Reform written by Simeon C. R. McIntosh and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Sir William Reynell Anson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law and Custom of the Constitution: The Crown written by Sir William Reynell Anson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Reynell Anson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law and Custom of the Constitution written by William Reynell Anson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rodney Brazier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Reform written by Rodney Brazier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Cris Shore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496466
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shapeshifting Crown written by Cris Shore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 134919543X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time for a New Constitutional Change written by Richard Holme and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-11-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1442628731
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Amendment in Canada written by Emmett Macfarlane and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutional Amendment in Canada is the first volume to focus solely on the implications of the amending formula in Canada.

Author : James Murdoch
Publisher : Glasgow : Blackie 1885.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Constitutional Reform in Great Britain and Ireland written by James Murdoch and published by Glasgow : Blackie 1885.. This book was released on 1885 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: