Jeffrey Goldsworthy (Professor, Monash University, Victoria)

Parliamentary Sovereignty

Contemporary Debates

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Produktbeschreibung

This examination of the ultimate foundations of Britain's customary constitution explores the past, present and possible future of parliamentary sovereignty, how recent constitutional developments have affected it, the relationship between Parliament, the courts and the protection of human rights, and how Parliament can effectively control its own sovereign authority.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780521140195
• ISBN-10: 0521140196
• Artikelnr.: 30204714

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Goldsworthy holds a Personal Chair in the Faculty of Law at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where his major interests are legal philosophy, and constitutional law, theory and history.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The myth of the common law constitution
3. Legislative sovereignty and the rule of law
4. Homogenising constitutions
5. Abdicating and limiting Parliament's sovereignty
6. Trethowan's case
7. Requirements as to procedure or form for legislating
8. Judicial review, legislative override, and democracy
9. Parliamentary sovereignty and statutory interpretation
10. Challenging parliamentary sovereignty: past, present and future.