A.V. Dicey: General Characteristics of English Constitutionalism - Six Unpublished Lectures- With a Foreword by Lord Plant of Highfield (Hardcover, New edition)

Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was elected to the Vinerian professorship of English Law in the University of Oxford in 1882. Dicey established himself as a great expert on constitutional history when in 1885 he published his Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, a major classic on the British constitutional system. Dicey's writings have achieved an almost canonical status, and his views are judged almost entirely on this volume. However Dicey developed his views further and extensively in a series of lectures he delivered in the late 1890s in which he focused his thoughts on the sovereignty of Parliament, the relationship between Parliament and the people, and the role of constitutional conventions. Dicey would not defend every detail of the British Constitution, but was quite prepared to consider certain constitutional innovations, such as the principle of referendum to give special status to Constitutional Acts, or that the House of Lords should have more representative legitimacy. Dicey also toyed with the idea of a Constitutional Convention as a basic form of protection for constitutional rules: he argued about constitutional safeguards to remedy the defects of the party system and recognised the adaptability of an unwritten constitution to changed circumstances. All these aspects of Dicey's thought are reflected in these lectures, published here for the first time.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	June 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Peter Raina
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	174
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911955-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Comparative law Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	3-03-911955-9
Barcode:	9783039119554

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