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This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first
gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in
England during the nineteenth century and its impact on
legislation. It is an accessible attempt by an Edwardian liberal to
make sense of recent British history. In our time, it helps define
what it means to be an individualist or liberal. Dicey's lectures
were a reflection of the anxieties felt by turn-of-the-century
Benthamite Liberals in the face of Socialist and New Liberal
challenges.
A. V. Dicey (1835-1922) was an English jurist, Vinerian Professor
of English Law at Oxford University, and author of, among other
works, "The Law of the Constitution."
Richard VandeWetering is Associate Professor of Political Science
at the University of Western Ontario.
A starting point for the study of the English Constitution and
comparative constitutional law, The Law of the Constitution
elucidates the guiding principles of the modern constitution of
England: the legislative sovereignty of Parliament, the rule of
law, and the binding force of unwritten conventions.
Originally published in 1897, this is the fifth edition of
'Introduction to the study of the Law of the Constitution' It deals
only with two or three guiding principles which pervade the modern
constitution of England. The object is to provide students with a
manual which may impress these leading principles on there minds,
and thus may enable them to study with benefit in Blackstone's
Commentaries and other treatises of the like nature those legal
topics which, taken together, make up the constitutional law of
England........ Many of the earliest books, particularly those
dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and
increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork.
As Americans we know much about our own constitution. Dicey now
gives the reader a chance to learn more about the British
constitution. Albert Dicey was a British jurist and constitutional
theorist. DIcey was a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford and later
became Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford and a leading
constitutional scholar of his day. An Introduction to the Study of
the Law of the Constitution was written in 1885. The principles it
expounds are considered part of the uncodified British
constitution. Dicey believed that freedom was under attack by
modern incursions against the Rule of Law. Dicey writes that the
freedom British subjects enjoy depends on the supremacy of Common
Law, the sovereignty of Parliament, and the courts remaining
impartial without governmental interference.
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