Constitutional Reform in UK Law
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The Case Against Constitutional Reform
Proposals for constitutional reform in the United Kingdom are examined critically. Ideas of ‘governance’ as posited by various accounts in the literature of politics are compared with the simpler i...
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‘Tears Before Bedtime’ A Look Back At The Constitutional Reform Programme Since 1997
Within a year of the Blair Government taking office, Bagehot in The Economist (1998) was accusing them of presiding over ‘a frenzy of constitutional reform” which ne...
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Slaying the ‘Westmonster’ in the Caribbean? Constitutional Reform in St Vincent and the Grenadines
The model of governance bequeathed by Britain to the Caribbean has long been praised for ensuring that vibrant democratic practice has generally prevailed since the era of decolonisation. Yet it ha...
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Constitutional Reform, the Lord Chancellor, and Human Rights: The Battle of Form and Substance
This article examines the impact of the Human Rights Act on the government's constitutional proposals for reform of the role of the Lord Chancellor and the appointment of the judiciary. It also loo...
- Constitutional Reform in French Tropical Africa
- Constitutional Reform and the Coalition Government
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An Equal Right to Inherit? Women’s Land Rights, Customary Law and Constitutional Reform in Tanzania
This article explores contemporary contestations surrounding women’s inheritance of land in Africa. Legal activism has gained momentum, both in agendas for law reform and in test case litigation, w...
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Constitutional reform and separatism: lessons from the Canadian experience
A shadowy francophone organisation, the Mouvement de Libération du Québec, has blacklisted 22 companies it considers pro-English. Anonymous letters carrying a picture of an armed French revolutiona...
- Book Review: Power and the People: A Guide to Constitutional Reform
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Realism and Reform in Rousseau's Constitutional Projects for Poland and Corsica
Of all of the criticisms leveled against Rousseau's practical political writings few have been as pervasive as the charge of intentional utopianism. Over the years this charge has not gone entirely...
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