Constitution in Crisis
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-072-7 (ISBN)
The debates that began at St Mary's Church, Putney on 28 October 1647 pioneered the liberal, democratic settlement in England: a written constitution, universal suffrage, freedom of conscience and equality before the law. Four centuries later, the 2016 Brexit referendum raised fundamental questions concerning the constitution of the United Kingdom. Following the High Court ruling that the government, under a centuries-old Royal Prerogative, does not have the power to trigger Article 50 to leave the EU, MPs have claimed that we are entering a full-blown constitutional crisis. The parallels between 1647 and 2017 are striking. Government has been toppled, a new leadership has emerged, and the two main parties are in a state of internecine warfare. Parliamentarians do not understand how to reconcile their duty to act for the common good and the result of the referendum. The people are divided and the four nations comprising the United Kingdom are at odds. This volume brings together some of the greatest public intellectuals of their generation to debate the constitutional crisis at the heart of today's politics. Featuring contributions from A.C.
Grayling, Joshua Rozenberg, Onora O'Neill, Will Hutton, Timothy Garton Ash and Michael Mansfield, this book provides important new perspectives on the most important political debate of the twenty-first century.
Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, and a Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He is the Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Law at the Universita' degli Studi di Siena and a Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Professor Galligan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society, an independent institution affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and based at Wolfson College University of Oxford. His books include Law in Modern Society and Western Concepts of Administrative Law.
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Denis Galligan
Part I. Parliament and the People
Parliamentary Sovereignty v Popular Sovereignty by Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
The Great Unanswered Question at Putney by John Rees
Athens, 17th century England and the Contrast with 18th-19th century America by Richard Sorabji
Contemporary Populism and What it Signifies by Akeel Bilgrami
Popular Sovereignty by Vernon Bogdanor
Building a New Social Commons: People and Parliament Working Together by Anna Coote
Brexit and the case for a People's Constitution by Alexandra Runswick
Part II. Changing and Strengthening the Role of the People
8.Is Representative Democracy Ripe for Review and Modification in Favour of More Direct Democracy? By Philip Kay
9.`The People is my Caesar': Jeremy Bentham's Radical Democratic State by Philip Schofield
10.We Need Fewer Referendums, with Higher Thresholds by Robert Hazell
11.Referendums for EU Politics? By Anne Deighton
12.Social Media and Democracy by Linda Risso
13.Democracy Is about More Than Voting: Pre-Modern Petitioning and Its Implications for Today by Mark Knights
Part III. Parliament, the Executive, the Courts, and the Rule of Law
14.Does the Separation of Powers Still Work? By Stephen Sedley
15.Prerogative Powers: Are They Necessary in the Twenty-First Century? By Alison Young
16.The Article 50 Legal Challenge: clarifying the UK's constitutional requirements to start Brexit by Rob Murray
17.Enemies of democracy? Taking back control through the courts by Jonathan Lis
18.The Role of Experts in Parliamentary Democracy by David Vines
19.The UK's Institutional Balance of Power After Leaving the EU by Michael Dougan
Part IV. Parliament, the Executive, the Courts, and the Rule of Law
20.Voice, Free Speech, and Democracy by Timothy Garton Ash
21.Plurinational Democracy by Michael Keating
22.Judeo-Christian Principles Underlying the Constitution by Ailsa Newby
23.Why The UK Needs A Written Constitution by AC Grayling
24."Thoughts From Across The Pond: The US Constitution (1787, 2017) by Richard W Clary
25.Conclusion by Denis Galligan
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2017 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78831-072-1 / 1788310721 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78831-072-7 / 9781788310727 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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