Constitution and constitutionalism -- Constitutional convention : practice and principle -- The rule of law : freedom, law, and justice -- Parliamentary sovereignty : authority and autonomy -- Legislative supremacy and the rule of law -- Constitutional foundations of judicial review -- Judicial review and judicial restraint -- Democracy, fundamental rights, and common law.
Summary
An original account of the British constitution, this text explains how the requirements of constitutional law depend on underlying considerations of legal and political theory and defends an account of the British constitution as a source of individual freedom, grounded in a persuasive interpretation of the common law constitutional tradition.
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