LEADER 03294oam 22006851c 450 001 9910817580803321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-5967-3 010 $a1-280-80858-6 010 $a9786610808588 010 $a1-84731-119-9 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472559678 035 $a(CKB)1000000000338403 035 $a(EBL)270763 035 $a(OCoLC)476005317 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000216829 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11181485 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216829 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10198797 035 $a(PQKB)10312744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1772523 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10276285 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL80858 035 $a(OCoLC)1138495528 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL270763 035 $a(OCoLC)191802698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1772523 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000338403 100 $a20140929d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOur republican constitution /$fAdam Tomkins 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford $aPortland, Oregon $cHart Publishing $d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (168 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9781841135224 311 $a1-84113-522-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [143]-152) and index 327 $a1 On the Political Constitution -- 2 Republican Constitutionalism -- 3 The Making of the Republican Constitution -- 4 Republican Constitutional Reform 330 8 $aThis 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 law 606 $aConstitutional law$zGreat Britain 606 $2Constitutional & administrative law 606 $aRepublicanism$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government 615 0$aConstitutional law 615 0$aRepublicanism 676 $a342.4102 700 $aTomkins$b Adam$0293997 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817580803321 996 $aOur republican constitution$93987887 997 $aUNINA