Full Description
Featuring contributions from leading scholars of history, law and politics, this path-breaking work traces the development of the United Kingdom's constitution from Anglo-Saxon times and explores its role in the creation, exercise and control of public power. Chapters in Volume One, entitled 'Exploring the Constitution', approach the constitution and its history from various scholarly perspectives, and provide historically sensitive discussions of constitutional actors and institutions, and transformations of the constitution. Essays in Volume Two, entitled 'The Changing Constitution' examine the development of the constitution from the departure of the Romans up to the present day and beyond. This is the first, wide-ranging history of the constitution to be published for decades. By its cross-disciplinary approach, taking account of the latest legal, political and historical scholarship on the constitution, it fills a large gap in the literature of the constitution, and in political thought and British history.
Contents
Part I. Perspectives: 1. The historical constitution H. Kumarasingham; 2. Law and the constitution Peter Cane; 3. Political constitutionalism Richard Bellamy; 4. The economic constitution Tony Prosser; 5. Religion and the constitution to 1688 Pippa Catterall; 6. Religion and the constitution since the glorious revolution Pippa Catterall; 7. The social democratic constitution K. D. Ewing; 8. The constitution of rights Peter Cane; 9. The people and the constitution Vernon Bogdanor; 10. Constitutional theory and thought Jeffrey Goldsworthy; Part II. Actors and institutions: 11. Monarchy Edward Cavanagh; 12. Legislatures Mike Gordon; 13. The executive and the administration Janet McLean; 14. Judiciaries Joshua Getzler; 15. Coercive institutions Brice Dickson; 16. Locality, regionality, and centrality Luke Blaxill; 17. Political parties Robert Crowcroft; PART III. Politics: 18. Conservatism Asanga Welikala; 19. Liberalism Emily Jones; 20. Socialism Stephen Sedley; 21. Unionism James Mitchell and Alan Convery; 22. Nationalism Michael Keating; 23. The kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England Simon Keynes; 24. England after the conquest George Garnett; 25. England in the thirteenth century Paul Brand; 26. England in the fourteenth century Christine Carpenter and Andrew Spencer; 27. England in the fifteenth century David J. Seipp; 28. England in the sixteenth century David Chan Smith; 29. The English constitution in the seventeenth century: crises of inadequacy Glenn Burgess; 30. A European perspective Tamar Herzog; 31. Wales before annexation Robin Chapman Stacey; 32. The Scottish constitution before 1707 Laura A M Stewart; 33. The eighteenth-century constitution: settlement and resettlement R. A. Melikan; 34. The constitutional and parliamentary history of Ireland till the union Thomas Bartlett; 35. The United Kingdom in the nineteenth century Ewen A. Cameron; 36. The United Kingdom in the twentieth century Andrew Blick; 37. The twenty-first century constitution Vernon Bogdanor; 38. Wales since the annexation Robert Cragoe; 39. Scotland in the union Stephen Tierney; 40. Ireland in the union Donal Coffey; 41. The making of empire Coel Kirkby; 42. constitution and empire H Kumarasingham.
