Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.
Preliminaries; Preface; Contents; 1 On the Political Constitution; 2 Republican Constitutionalism; 3 The Making of the Republican Constitution; 4 Republican Constitutional Reform; Bibliography; Index.
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This new book by Adam Tomkins sets out a radical vision of the British constitution. It argues that despite its outwardly monarchic form the constitution is profoundly informed, and indeed shaped, by values and practices of republicanism. The republican reading of the constitution presented in this book places political accountability at the core of the constitutional order. As such, Our Republican Constitution offers a powerful rejoinder to the current trend in legal scholarship that sees the common law and the courts, rather than Parliament, as the central players in holding government to ac.
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