Political Science : Constitutions

This new book examines the House of Lords in both its Parliamentary and its judicial capacity. A total of 14 contributors discuss such important topics as the membership of the House,how the House compares with other second chambers in bicameral legislatures elsewhere, the role of the Lord Chancellor, the rules concerning discussion of sub judice matters and the stance taken by the Law Lords towards European Community law. At a time when the future of the House is once again under active consideration, the book serves to remind readers of the significance of the institution to the British constitution. It will be of interest to students of government and law as well as to practitioners in the field, including Parliamentarians and judges. The issues dealt with in this book go to the heart of how democracy manifests itself in the United Kingdom today.’. Contributors:. Michael Rush, Nicholas Baldwin, Rodney Brazier, Paul Carmichael, Andrew Baker, Patricia Leopold, Gavin Drewry, Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, Brice Dickson, Barry Fitzpatrick, Anthony Bradney, Patricia Maxwell, Kenny Mullan, Simon Lee. more...

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In this volume, Robert Nagel proposes that anxiety about national unity is caused by centralization itself. Moreover, he proposes that this anxiety has dangerous cultural consequences that are, in an implosive cycle, pushing the country toward ever greater centralization. more...

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The first known detailed study of the early history of the Japanese Diet, providing thorough discussion of the origins of the Japanese parliament and it's development during this formative period. Drawn from primary sources. more...

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This work argues that the ancient underlying principles of public law are as crucial as they ever were - they simply need to be experimentally updated to address the changing face of "governance". The author describe the challenges and points up possible directions in which we might move. more...

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Six years after the September 11 attacks, America is. losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. It is losing. not to Al Qaeda but to its own failure to construct a set of laws. that will protect the American people—its military and executive. branch, as well as its citizens—in the midst of a conflict. unlike any it has faced in the past. Now, in the twilight of. President Bush’s administration, Brookings Institution fellow. Benjamin Wittes offers a vigorous analysis of the troubling. legal legacy of the Bush administration as well as that of the. U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court. Law and the Long War. tells as no book has before the story of how America came to its. current impasse in the debate over liberty, human rights, and. counterterrorism and draws a road map for how the country. and the next president might move forward. Moving beyond the stale debate between those fixated. on the executive branch as the key architect of counterterrorism. policy and those who see the judiciary as the essential guarantor. of liberty against governmental abuses, Wittes argues that. the essential problem is that the Bush administration did not. seek—and Congress did not write—new laws to authorize and. regulate the tough presidential actions this war would require. In a line of argument that is sure to spark controversy, Wittes. reveals an administration whose most significant failure was. not that it was too aggressive in the substance of its action, but. rather that it tried to shoulder the burden of aggressiveness on. its own without seeking the support of other branches of government. Using startling new empirical research on the detainee. population at Guantánamo Bay, Wittes avers that many of the. administration’s actions were far more defensible than its many. critics believed and actually warranted congressional support. Yet by resisting both congressional and judicial involvement. in its controversial decisions, the execu more...

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