A State of Mind?: The English Constitution and the Popular ImaginationSutton, 2000 - 250 էջ Where do power and authority come from and how do those who have it keep it? What would be the impact of dissolution on the United Kingdom? These are the key questions in this study of English constitutional history, starting with the Tudor period and following the issues up to modern times. Tracing a path from the Tudor constitutional ideal of the king in Parliament to the emergence of civil rights ideas, the re-invention of an imperial Britain (Victoria as Gloriana) and current debates around self-determination, Ward considers how the constitution has been imagined in literature, as well as in historical narrative. In doing so, he makes it clear that Parliament and monarchy are themselves imagined and re-imagined over time, not as glosses on history, but as the center of a narrative of the constitution. He argues that ultimately, all constitutions depend for their acceptance on their ability to reach the imagination, rather than on the power of a legal code. |
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Արդյունքներ 36–ի 1-ից 3-ը:
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... rule in ' perfect virtue ' . Such a rule , as Aristotle suggested , is ' balanced ' . Moreover , it enjoys two particular ' virtues ' . The first is a respect for the authority of the common law . The king is ' bound by oath at his ...
... rule in ' perfect virtue ' . Such a rule , as Aristotle suggested , is ' balanced ' . Moreover , it enjoys two particular ' virtues ' . The first is a respect for the authority of the common law . The king is ' bound by oath at his ...
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... rule ' , creating complex webs of Court patronage , governing through a mutating executive counsel of ministers , and shocking his countrymen with a Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 and then revelations of a secret treaty with France ...
... rule ' , creating complex webs of Court patronage , governing through a mutating executive counsel of ministers , and shocking his countrymen with a Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 and then revelations of a secret treaty with France ...
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... rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power ' . Accordingly , the ' pretensions of divine right ' must ... rule . The idea of a natural - born magistracy was the keystone of Bolingbroke's vision . Some are - ' born for ...
... rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power ' . Accordingly , the ' pretensions of divine right ' must ... rule . The idea of a natural - born magistracy was the keystone of Bolingbroke's vision . Some are - ' born for ...
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The Kings Great Matter | 7 |
The Settlement of the Fairy Queen | 30 |
Casting Down Imaginations | 54 |
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