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    The United Kingdom Constitution by Barber, N. W.;

    An Introduction

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 5 October 2021

    • ISBN 9780198852322
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages400 pages
    • Size 216x138x21 mm
    • Weight 476 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This volume is an introduction to the United Kingdom's constitution that recognises its historical, political, and legal dimensions. It pays attention to the revival of the constituent territories of the UK. The constitution is shaped by constitutional principles, including state sovereignty, separation of powers, democracy, and subsidiarity.

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    Long description:

    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.

    Nicholas Barber's excellent new book is published at a time of great flux in the constitution of the United Kingdom. The book is wide ranging in its approach; it covers all of the main dimensions of the constitution in a relatively modest 360 pages, and it does so in a multi-layered approach that combines empirical exposition, doctrinal analysis, theoretical sophistication and carefully argued critical reflection.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Part 1: Sovereignty
    Introduction to constitutions
    The Legal Constitution: Legal Orders
    The Legal Constitution: Common Law, Prerogative, and Privilege
    The Legal Constitution: Statutes
    Political Constitution: Constitutional Conventions
    Constructing State Sovereignty 
    Part 2: Separation of Powers
    Introduction to the Separation of Powers
    Courts
    Legislatures
    Executive
    Realising the Separation of Powers
    Part 3: Subsidiarity
    Introduction to the Regionalisation of Power
    Wales
    Scotland
    Northern Ireland
    England and Elsewhere
    Realising Subsidiarity
    Part 4: The State and its People
    Introduction to States and People
    The Rule of Law and Liberty
    Rights
    Becoming Citizens
    Index

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