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Time for a New Constitutional Change Richard Holme

Time for a New Constitutional Change By Richard Holme

Time for a New Constitutional Change by Richard Holme


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Summary

A group of essays, many given at the annual Scarman seminar run by the Constitutional Reform Centre in 1987-88, and now published to coincide with the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights, re-examining the principles and practice of the constitution since 1688.

Time for a New Constitutional Change Summary

Time for a New Constitutional Change by Richard Holme

A collection of essays, many given at the annual Scarman seminars run by the Constitutional Reform Centre in 1987-88, and now published on the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights, which discuss whether Britain's constitution has changed and improved since those events 300 years ago. The contributors who include Vernon Bogdanor, Ralph Dahrendorf, Michael Elliot and Lord Scarman take this opportunity to re-examine the principles and practice of the British constitution in 1988 and find them deficient for the needs of contemporary society. They examine topics such as the enabling State, the dispersion of power, the redefinition of citizenship, the revitalization of democracy and the reform of government. In the process, they define an agenda for constitutional reform including devolution and decentralization, a Bill of Rights, electoral and parliamentary reform and freedom of information. Richard Holme is co-editor of Partners in One Nation and author of The People's Kingdom and Michael Elliot is author of The Role of Law in Central-Local Relations and Heartbeat London: The Anatomy of a Supercity.

Table of Contents

Time and chance - a constitutional retrospective, M.Brock; constitutionalism and the new politics, M.Elliot; change in local government, N.Deakin; sovereignty, centralism and devolution, B.Crick; Britain and Europe - the myth of sovereignty, V.Bogdanor; Bill of Rights and law reform, Lord Scarman; citizenship and the modern social conflict, R.Dahrendorf; parties, parliament and PR, R.Holme; official secrecy and freedom of information, J.Cornford; making government responsible to parliament, J.Grigg; Whitehall and the Civil Service, W.Plowden.

Additional information

GOR007779823
9780333467022
0333467027
Time for a New Constitutional Change by Richard Holme
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
1988-11-04
216
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