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"The central purpose of a constitution is to allocate and regulate governmental power within a state. A constitution establishes the key institutions of government; it grants power to them, distributes power between them, and governs the ways in which the institutions of government interact with each other. A constitution also controls the way in which those institutions might exercise their powers, and determines how those powers might be exercised in relation to the individuals who reside within that state. Constitutions are therefore, as the quote which opens this chapter suggests, a distinctive species of legal norms (rules) concerned with the government and governance of the state within which they apply"--
About the author
Roger Masterman is Professor of Constitutional Law at Durham Law School, where he teaches UK Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law. He is Joint General Editor of the journal Public Law, and a member of the executive committee of the UK Constitutional Law Association.Colin Murray teaches Constitutional Law and Counter-Terrorism Law at Newcastle Law School. His research focuses on challenges to a democratic constitutional order. He has appeared as an expert witness before multiple parliamentary committees and served as a specialist adviser to the Select Committee on the Draft Prisoner Voting Bill in 2013.
Summary
With extensive examples, this third edition textbook provides an accessible, discursive, and scholarly treatment of the key contemporary issues in UK Public Law. Suitable primarily for an undergraduate audience, it is a topical and fully-updated account of the UK's constitutional order.
Foreword
Provides an accessible, discursive, and scholarly treatment of the key contemporary issues in UK Public Law.
