Writing the Victorian constitution

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Writing the Victorian constitution

Ian Ward

(Palgrave modern legal history / series editors, Rebecca Provert, Catharine MacMillan)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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Includes bibliographical refrences (p. 195-208) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English constitutional thought-Edmund Burke, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Walter Bagehot and Albert Venn Dicey. Stretching from the French Revolution to the death of Queen Victoria, their writing is both representative of and formative to the Victorian constitution. Ian Ward traces how constitutional writing changed over the course of the long nineteenth century, from the poetics of Burke and the romance of Macaulay, to the pragmatism of Bagehot and the jurisprudence of Dicey. A century on, our perception of the English constitution is still shaped by this contested history.

Table of Contents

1. The Written Constitution 2. The Revolution of Mr Burke 3. The Great Dramatist 4. The Greatest Victorian 5. Dicey's Law

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Details

  • NCID
    BD05900310
  • ISBN
    • 9783030072315
  • Country Code
    sz
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cham
  • Pages/Volumes
    v, 218 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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