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What are the limits to parliamentary sovereignty? When should the
people be able to vote directly on issues? The constitutional
theorist Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was a cogent advocate of the
referendum. While his enthusiasm for the institution was widely
acknowledged in his own day, thereafter this dimension of his
career has been largely neglected. This fall into obscurity is
partly explained by the fact that Dicey never collected his
writings on referendums into a single volume. Consequently, when
the prolonged constitutional crisis over Brexit brought references
to Dicey beyond the province of academic law and into public
debate, the invocation of his legacy was less than satisfactory.
This timely modern edition brings together Dicey's sophisticated
and intricate writings on the referendum, and it covers his
attempts to construct a credible theory of democracy on a new
intellectual and institutional basis. An original scholarly
introduction analyzes Dicey's thought in light of its contemporary
context.
The famed 1914 edition of this classic is one of the small handful
of works that deserve to be read by Americans to understand the
1980s. Indeed, the final three chapters, describing the decline of
will and consensus in late Victorian England, stand as a stark,
unmistakable reminder that such national decline can happen again.
Dicey was the most influential constitutional authority in late
Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Modern politicians have often
invoked the phrase "rule of law." So commonplace has it become that
few recognize its source in the work of Dicey. Law and Public
Opinion in England is written with simplicity, wit and a sense of
purpose that marks it as a book apart. It did much more than
fortell the decline of empire, it developed the forms in which such
decline comes about. In many ways this book represents a pioneering
statement on the libertarian tradition as a consequence of rather
than rebellion against the legal norms of an advanced civilization.
This is a central book for students of society and politics alike.
What are the limits to parliamentary sovereignty? When should the
people be able to vote directly on issues? The constitutional
theorist Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was a cogent advocate of the
referendum. While his enthusiasm for the institution was widely
acknowledged in his own day, thereafter this dimension of his
career has been largely neglected. This fall into obscurity is
partly explained by the fact that Dicey never collected his
writings on referendums into a single volume. Consequently, when
the prolonged constitutional crisis over Brexit brought references
to Dicey beyond the province of academic law and into public
debate, the invocation of his legacy was less than satisfactory.
This timely modern edition brings together Dicey's sophisticated
and intricate writings on the referendum, and it covers his
attempts to construct a credible theory of democracy on a new
intellectual and institutional basis. An original scholarly
introduction analyzes Dicey's thought in light of its contemporary
context.
The famed 1914 edition of this classic is one of the small
handful of works that deserve to be read by Americans to understand
the 1980s. Indeed, the final three chapters, describing the decline
of will and consensus in late Victorian England, stand as a stark,
unmistakable reminder that such national decline can happen
again.
Dicey was the most influential constitutional authority in late
Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Modern politicians have often
invoked the phrase "rule of law." So commonplace has it become that
few recognize its source in the work of Dicey. Law and Public
Opinion in England is written with simplicity, wit and a sense of
purpose that marks it as a book apart. It did much more than
fortell the decline of empire, it developed the forms in which such
decline comes about. In many ways this book represents a pioneering
statement on the libertarian tradition as a consequence of rather
than rebellion against the legal norms of an advanced civilization.
This is a central book for students of society and politics
alike.
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