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Zusatztext The work is stimulating! thoroughly well researched! and constitutes a sustained critique of current constitutional practice a refreshing departure from other texts dealing with public law...very likely to stimulate a great deal of public debate on the issues addressed a very useful! thought-provoking! addition to the discourse on public law in this country well worth a read. Informationen zum Autor Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of a number of books on law, literature and history including Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives (1995), Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination (1999), The English Constitution: Myths and Realities (2004), Law, Text, Terror (2009) and Law and the Brontes (2011). Klappentext The English Constitution addresses two burning contemporary and complementary questions; one regarding the so-called English question, the changing identities of England and English-ness, and a second regarding the changing shape of the Anglo-British constitution. It is suggested that there are both internal and external pressures that are driving the reformation of our constitutional order. There are internal pressures of decay, even corruption, and popular apathy, and there are external pressures brought to bear by the geopolitical challenges of the new world order and the new Europe. The present project of constitutional reform inaugurated by the present government is supposed to reflect these pressures. This book challenges this assumption, arguing that a far more radical re-constitution is required, involving: deeper institutional reforms (the most pressing being the abrogation of monarchy, and the established Church); geopolitical reforms to recast the devolutionary settlemen Zusammenfassung This book aims to provide a stimulating text for both academics and students; advancing a series of original ideas about the English constitution. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Old Boundaries2. The Mask of Anarchy3. Renaissance4. England and its Empires5. In Search of an English Constitution...
