03294oam 22006851c 450 991081758080332120200115203623.01-4725-5967-31-280-80858-697866108085881-84731-119-910.5040/9781472559678(CKB)1000000000338403(EBL)270763(OCoLC)476005317(SSID)ssj0000216829(PQKBManifestationID)11181485(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216829(PQKBWorkID)10198797(PQKB)10312744(Au-PeEL)EBL1772523(CaPaEBR)ebr10276285(CaONFJC)MIL80858(OCoLC)1138495528(UtOrBLW)bpp09255774(Au-PeEL)EBL270763(OCoLC)191802698(MiAaPQ)EBC1772523(EXLCZ)99100000000033840320140929d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOur republican constitution /Adam Tomkins1st ed.Oxford Portland, Oregon Hart Publishing 2005.1 online resource (168 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781841135224 1-84113-522-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-152) and index1 On the Political Constitution -- 2 Republican Constitutionalism -- 3 The Making of the Republican Constitution -- 4 Republican Constitutional ReformThis new book by Adam Tomkins sets out a radical vision of the British constitution. It argues that despite its outwardly monarchic form the constitution is profoundly informed, and indeed shaped, by values and practices of republicanism. The republican reading of the constitution presented in this book places political accountability at the core of the constitutional order. As such, Our Republican Constitution offers a powerful rejoinder to the current trend in legal scholarship that sees the common law and the courts, rather than Parliament, as the central players in holding government to account. The book further contends that while the constitution should be understood as having republican foundations, current constitutional practice is, in a number of respects, insufficiently republican in character. The book closes by outlining a programme of republican constitutional reform that is designed to secure genuinely responsible government. This is an original and provocative reinterpretation of the central themes of the British constitution, drawing on constitutional history (especially of the seventeenth century), political theory and public lawConstitutional lawGreat BritainConstitutional & administrative lawRepublicanismGreat BritainGreat BritainPolitics and governmentConstitutional lawRepublicanism342.4102Tomkins Adam293997UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910817580803321Our republican constitution3987887UNINA