Magna Carta and its modern legacy / edited by Robert Hazell, James Melton.
2015
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Title
Magna Carta and its modern legacy / edited by Robert Hazell, James Melton.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Comparative constitutional law and policy.
Formatted Contents Note
Magna Carta ... Holy Grail? / James Melton and Robert Hazell
Magna Carta, the rule of law and the reform of the Constitution / Vernon Bogdanor
Eight centuries on : who are Britain's barons now? / Anthony King
What Magna Carta means to the modern British public / Roger Mortimore
The troublesome inheritance of Americans in Magna Carta and trial by jury / Renée Lettow Lerner
Magna Carta, the "sugar colonies" and "fantasies of empire" / Derek O'Brien
Magna Carta frustrated? : institutional delay in the Pacific Island states of the Commonwealth / David Clark
Magna Carta and modern myth-making : proportionality in the "cruel and unusual punishments" clause / Craig S. Lerner
Judicial supremacy : explaining false starts and surprising successes / Victor Menaldo and Nora Webb Williams
More magna than the Magna Carta : Magna Carta's sister
the Charter of the Forest / Geraldine Van Bueren
Michael Oakeshott, the legendary past and Magna Carta / Natalie Riendeau.
Magna Carta, the rule of law and the reform of the Constitution / Vernon Bogdanor
Eight centuries on : who are Britain's barons now? / Anthony King
What Magna Carta means to the modern British public / Roger Mortimore
The troublesome inheritance of Americans in Magna Carta and trial by jury / Renée Lettow Lerner
Magna Carta, the "sugar colonies" and "fantasies of empire" / Derek O'Brien
Magna Carta frustrated? : institutional delay in the Pacific Island states of the Commonwealth / David Clark
Magna Carta and modern myth-making : proportionality in the "cruel and unusual punishments" clause / Craig S. Lerner
Judicial supremacy : explaining false starts and surprising successes / Victor Menaldo and Nora Webb Williams
More magna than the Magna Carta : Magna Carta's sister
the Charter of the Forest / Geraldine Van Bueren
Michael Oakeshott, the legendary past and Magna Carta / Natalie Riendeau.
Summary
Magna Carta is celebrated around the world as a symbol of limited government and constitutionalism. But in 1215 Magna Carta was a failure, abrogated within months. Why then do we celebrate this piece of parchment? To mark the 800th anniversary this book brings together top scholars from the UK, US and Australia to answer this question and analyse Magna Carta's historic and contemporary influence. Using a political science framework, Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy draws from scholarship on influence and constitutional design to explain how parchment can contain executive power. Individual chapters on Britain discuss such topics as socioeconomic rights in Magna Carta; Magna Carta and the British constitution; and public understanding of the charter. Internationally focused chapters look at Magna Carta and jury trial in America, slavery in the Caribbean, court delays in the Pacific, the proportionality principle, and judicial supremacy.
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Language
English
ISBN
9781316285718 (ebook)
9781107112773 (hardback)
9781107533103 (paperback)
9781107112773 (hardback)
9781107533103 (paperback)
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