... Phelips Robert Rudyard Benjamin Spelman Henry Venice Wentworth Peter history humanism education record keeping antiquarianism archiving English Reformation English Civil Wars ancient constitution revisionism The Speaker of the House of Commons had a difficult brief when he addressed James VI...

... to assess remarks about parliament’s antiquity in relation to an ideology – ‘ancient constitutionalism’ – therefore seems misguided. Some thought that the Anglica historia had dated parliament too early, rather than too late. Again, such a belief did not necessarily predict political...

... on the connection between the constitution of identities and particular (disciplinary) practices. The chapter discusses the construction of the self, identity performance and how America has come into being using a process of imagining the absent, the elusive and that which it is not. It clarifies...

...This chapter discusses the development of constitutional and political asymmetry in the Yeltsin era. In Russia, there was little evidence of consensus and compromise in the drafting of its constitution. Instead, the foundations of Russian constitutionalism were forged out of conflict and coercion...

.... Skinner (eds), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage. Vol. 1: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 289–306. 2 B. Constant, ‘The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns...

.... Among the various models and ideas on which they drew, those from across the Channel were particularly important. In the early months of the Revolution, the existing British constitution and the example of the Glorious Revolution were cited, but as events moved on, it was 1640–60 that offered the most...

.... Up to that point in French history, this statistic had little theoretical bearing on the practice of national politics. But in 1789 the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen abruptly changed France’s political equation; 15 “the nation” (meaning the people) constitutionally became...

... to Europe is contingent upon both the state of the European project and the historical domestic context at a particular time. The EU and the European integration project have opened windows of opportunity for political actors in Britain to introduce and advocate particular constitutional notions and models...

... transition out of a state of nature into governed society through a social contract, and emphasized instead the regular deployment of the people’s power in elections. These views lay behind the Levellers’ constitutional theory which gave an elected representative, rather than king or lords, institutional...

... enforcement area Democratic Unionist Party DUP Northern Ireland Constitutional Proposals 1973 White Paper Stormont Ulster Unionist Party UUP Towards the Future A Unionist Blueprint Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party VUPP Whitelaw William Bloomfield Kenneth Douglas Home Alec European Economic...

... politics and the activities of councillors. A sub-national governing system with a strong constitutional position poses other tiers of government a different set of questions and challenges compared to a system where local government is constitutionally weak. In the English context, local government...

... to commemorations and occasional protests, notably that against the 1937 Constitution, Sinn Féin became an irrelevant political force, shunned by its former allies. By the end of the Second World War it was on the verge of extinction. 1916 IRA MacSwiney Mary Cumann na nGaedheal De Valera Éamon Fianna Fáil...

...The eighteenth century was long deemed ‘the classical age of the constitution’ in Britain, with cabinet government based on a two-party system of Whigs and Tories in Parliament, and a monarchy whose powers had been emasculated by the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689. This study furthers the work...

... Zappone Katherine Bacik Ivana Barry Eilis Hogan Gerard O’Hehir Phil Trinity College Dublin Revenue Commissioners Atlantic Philanthropies Civil Partnership Bill KAL McKechnie Liam Seanad Éireann Belfast Close Grainne Irish Constitution McDowell Michael Oireachtas Progressive Democrats...

...This book explains devolution today in terms of the evolution of past structures of government in the component parts of the United Kingdom. It highlights the importance of the English dimension and the role that England's territorial politics played in constitutional debates. Similarities...

... of Europe was consequently held in 2002 with a mandate to make proposals to governments for a new EU constitution in 2003. This would be necessary also to prepare for the ‘big bang’ enlargement decided at a summit in Copenhagen in December 2002. Thorny questions remained, however, such as how to reform...

... Machiavelli Niccolo Sallust Secondant Charles Loius de baron de Montesquieu Trenchard John Adams John Nedham Marchamont Washington George Ramsay David Lee Richard Henry Milton John Tucker St George Price Richard Star Chamber Court of Timoleon Jefferson Thomas Sedition Act 1798 constitutionalism...

... ‘insurgent constitutionalism’. Ambedkar B R Bharatiya Janata Party BJP capitalism Constitution Dalit dissident Hindutva insurgent Mahabharata Manusmriti Mevani Jignesh Rao Mayo Azad Chandrashekhar Bhim Army Constitutional Amendment Act CAA COVID 19 Pathalgadi movement protest Shaheen Bagh...

...This book challenges the myths surrounding the Irish Free Constitution by analysing the document in its context, by looking at how the Constitution was drafted and elucidating the true nature of the document. It examines the reasons why the Constitution did not function as anticipated...