The United Kingdom Constitution

An Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-885231-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

This volume provides an introduction to the United Kingdom's constitution that recognises and embraces its historical, social, political, and legal dimensions. It critically examines the radical changes to the UK constitution that have occurred over the last thirty years, paying particular attention to the revival of the constituent territories of the UK - Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England - and to the increasing role played by the judges in constitutional disputes. The UK constitution is presented as being shaped by a set of constitutional principles, including state sovereignty, separation of powers, democracy, subsidiarity, and the rule of law, principles which set the overall structure of the constitution and inform statutes and the decisions of judges. Adopting a principled approach to the UK constitution allows us to see both the clarity of the constitution's structure and also helps explain its complexities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barber, N. W.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- Part 1: Sovereignty

- 2: Introduction to constitutions

- 3: The Legal Constitution: Legal Orders

- 4: The Legal Constitution: Common Law, Prerogative, and Privilege

- 5: The Legal Constitution: Statutes

- 6: Political Constitution: Constitutional Conventions

- 7: Constructing State Sovereignty

- Part 2: Separation of Powers

- 8: Introduction to the Separation of Powers

- 9: Courts

- 10: Legislatures

- 11: Executive

- 12: Realising the Separation of Powers

- Part 3: Subsidiarity

- 13: Introduction to the Regionalisation of Power

- 14: Wales

- 15: Scotland

- 16: Northern Ireland

- 17: England and Elsewhere

- 18: Realising Subsidiarity

- Part 4: The State and its People

- 19: Introduction to States and People

- 20: The Rule of Law and Liberty

- 21: Rights

- 22: Becoming Citizens

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

N. W. Barber is Professor of Constitutional Law and Theory at Oxford University and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He has written extensively in the area of constitutional law, and his two previous books, The Constitutional State and The Principles of Constitutionalism were both published by Oxford University Press.