This 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.
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