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Essays on the History of Parliamentary Procedure - In Honour of Thomas Erskine May (Hardcover)
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Essays on the History of Parliamentary Procedure - In Honour of Thomas Erskine May (Hardcover)
Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Law
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8 February 2015 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Thomas
Erskine May. May is the most famous of the fifty holders of the
office of Clerk of the House of Commons. His continued renown
arises from his Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and
Usage of Parliament, first published in 1844 and with its 25th
edition currently in preparation. It is known throughout those
parts of the world that model their constitutional arrangements on
Westminster as the 'Bible of Parliamentary Procedure'. This volume
celebrates both the man and his book. Bringing together current and
former Clerks in the House of Commons and outside experts, the
contributors analyse May's profound contribution to the shaping of
the modern House of Commons, as it made the transition from the
pre-Reform Act House to the modern core of the UK's constitutional
democracy in his lifetime. This is perhaps best symbolised by its
enforced transition between 1834 and 1851 from a mediaeval slum to
the World Heritage Palace of Westminster, which is the most iconic
building in the UK. The book also considers the wider context of
parliamentary law and procedure, both before and after May's time.
It constitutes the first sustained analysis of the development of
parliamentary procedure in over half a century, attempting to
situate the reforms in the way the central institution of our
democracy conducts itself in the political contexts which drove
those changes.
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