The English Historical Constitution

Continuity, Change and European Effects

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ID7535548
AuthorsJohn Allison (0000-0001-8970-4423, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), J W F Allison
Year2007
Publication date2007-10-11
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueEnglish Historical Constitution (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511619373
OpenAlexW567772771
Open LibraryOL10438258M
ISBN9780511619373
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited68

The fundamental legal and institutional changes of recent decades have brought the English constitution into question. Accompanying issues have been the extent to which its traditional character and main features have been changed, lost their former appeal and retained their distinctness in the European Union. These issues are not readily addressed in everyday thinking about a constitution simply conceived as unwritten or in constitutional accounts variously preoccupied with abstract analysis, political accountability or transcendent norms. The English Historical Constitution addresses these issues by developing a historical constitutional approach and thus elaborating on continuity and change in the constitution's main doctrines and institutions. From an English legal perspective, it offers a complement or corrective to analytical, political and normative approaches by reforming an old conception of the historical constitution and of its history, partly obscured and long neglected through the modern analytical preoccupation with its law as an abstract scheme of rules, principles and practices

Appeal · Constitution · Epistemology · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Legal Studies and Society · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Constitutional history · Constitutional law · European influences · Eurpoean influences · Great britain

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