The Shapeshifting Crown - Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK (Paperback)

The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the Westminster model of government, it is also an enigma. Even constitutional experts struggle to define its attributes and boundaries: who or what is the Crown and how is it embodied? Is it the Queen, the state, the government, a corporation sole or aggregate, a relic of feudal England, a metaphor, or a mask for the operation of executive power? How are its powers exercised? How have the Crowns of different Commonwealth countries developed? The Shapeshifting Crown combines legal and anthropological perspectives to provide novel insights into the Crown's changing nature and its multiple, ambiguous and contradictory meanings. It sheds new light onto the development of the state in postcolonial societies and constitutional monarchy as a cultural system.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2020
Editors:	Cris Shore • David V. Williams
Dimensions:	229 x 151 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-73385-4
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Law > International law > Public international law > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General
LSN:	1-108-73385-9
Barcode:	9781108733854

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