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Author Scott, Paul, 1985- author.

Title The national security constitution / Paul F Scott.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Hart Publishing, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 334 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Hart studies in security and justice ; volume 4
Hart studies in security and justice ; v. 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- The counter-terrorism constitution -- Investigatory powers and the constitution -- The military constitution -- Citizenship -- Secrecy -- Justiciability -- Sovereignty.
Summary This book addresses the various ways in which modern approaches to the protection of national security have impacted upon the constitutional order of the United Kingdom. It outlines and assesses the constitutional significance of the three primary elements of the United Kingdom's response to the possibility of terrorism and other phenomena that threaten the security of the state: the body of counter-terrorism legislation that has grown up in the last decade and a half; the evolving law of investigatory powers; and, to the extent relevant to the domestic constitution, the law and practice governing international military action and co-operation. Following on from this, the author demonstrates that considerations of national security - as a good to be protected and promoted in contemporary Britain - are reflected not merely in the existence of discrete bodies of law by which it is protected at home and abroad, but simultaneously and increasingly leaked into other areas of public law. Elements of the constitution which are not directly and inherently linked to national security nevertheless become (by both accident and design) implicated in the state's national security endeavours, with significant and at times far-reaching consequences for the constitutional order generally. A renewed and strengthened concern for national security since September 2001 has, it is argued, dragged into its orbit a variety of constitutional phenomena and altered them in its image, giving rise to what we might call a national security constitution.
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Subject National security -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
National security -- Law and legislation.
Great Britain.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
War and emergency legislation -- Great Britain.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation.
War and emergency legislation.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Scott, Paul, 1985- National security constitution. Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2018 9781509911011 (DLC) 2017056847
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