The English Historical Constitution - Softcover

Allison, J. W. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521702364 ISBN 13: 9780521702362

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The fundamental legal and institutional changes of recent decades have brought the English constitution into question. Accompanying issues have been the extent to which its traditional character and main features have been changed, lost their former appeal and retained their distinctness in the European Union. These issues are not readily addressed in everyday thinking about a constitution simply conceived as unwritten or in constitutional accounts variously preoccupied with abstract analysis, political accountability or transcendent norms. The English Historical Constitution addresses these issues by developing a historical constitutional approach and thus elaborating on continuity and change in the constitution's main doctrines and institutions. From an English legal perspective, it offers a complement or corrective to analytical, political and normative approaches by reforming an old conception of the historical constitution and of its history, partly obscured and long neglected through the modern analytical preoccupation with its law as an abstract scheme of rules, principles and practices.

About this title

Book Description:

In response to the simplistic everyday conception of the unwritten constitution and to the limitations of current analytical, political and normative legal approaches, The English Historical Constitution advocates an historical constitutional approach to assessing the recent constitutional reforms and the impact of European Community law's development upon English constitutional law.

About the Author:

John Allison is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521702364
• ISBN 13: 9780521702362
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288