The State: Historical and Political DimensionsRichard English, Charles Townshend Routledge, 12. okt. 2012 - 264 sider Drawing on current debates on secessions within the United Kingdom, this book analyses the British State today and looks at its place in the future. Featuring original contributions from a variety of disciplines, this study tackles the problem of defining and studying the state and looks at the role the nation-state has played as the basic political unit in Europe and throughout the world. |
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... Bagehot's The English Constitution . Evoking Bagehot rather than Locke , Paine , Bentham or J. S. Mill as the authentic voice of English constitutionalism is doubly revealing . In the first place it says something about the quality of ...
... Bagehot's The English Constitution . Evoking Bagehot rather than Locke , Paine , Bentham or J. S. Mill as the authentic voice of English constitutionalism is doubly revealing . In the first place it says something about the quality of ...
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... Bagehot's essay was and remains remarkably perceptive . Yet what is striking , and deeply revealing , is that he called it The English Constitution , but saw no need to discuss abstract constitutional principles . His work celebrated ...
... Bagehot's essay was and remains remarkably perceptive . Yet what is striking , and deeply revealing , is that he called it The English Constitution , but saw no need to discuss abstract constitutional principles . His work celebrated ...
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... Bagehot might have told us , the great thing is that they are there , assuring us that the English constitution is still working , and solemnly warning the more hot - headed members of the chattering classes against dangerous tampering ...
... Bagehot might have told us , the great thing is that they are there , assuring us that the English constitution is still working , and solemnly warning the more hot - headed members of the chattering classes against dangerous tampering ...
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... Bagehot's ' making it good ' is a serious - and in some ways sinister - gloss on the pattern of development of the modern English state . From the 1830s onwards , making a single sovereign authority work has consisted in large measure ...
... Bagehot's ' making it good ' is a serious - and in some ways sinister - gloss on the pattern of development of the modern English state . From the 1830s onwards , making a single sovereign authority work has consisted in large measure ...
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Wales and the British state The outer form of subjugation | 44 |
The state in independent Ireland | 66 |
The state and Northern Ireland | 95 |
Federal and confederal ideas in Scottish political culture | 109 |
Member states and the European Union | 143 |
State and public security | 165 |
The state and prostate terrorism in Ireland | 184 |
The British state sovereignty and identities | 210 |
Nations states and religions | 235 |
Index | 248 |
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