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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Side 5
... parliamentary assemblies , as well as central and sub - central government ) in various ways govern . Another defining feature of the state is the impermeability of its territorial boundaries . At its simplest , it might be suggested ...
... parliamentary assemblies , as well as central and sub - central government ) in various ways govern . Another defining feature of the state is the impermeability of its territorial boundaries . At its simplest , it might be suggested ...
Side 11
... parliamentary legislation an adequate basis on which to build citizens ' freedom ? Was there to emerge , in fact , a ' representative deficit ' in English parliamentary structures ? Certainly , as Eastwood points out , nineteenth ...
... parliamentary legislation an adequate basis on which to build citizens ' freedom ? Was there to emerge , in fact , a ' representative deficit ' in English parliamentary structures ? Certainly , as Eastwood points out , nineteenth ...
Side 18
... parliamentary development have been presented as an ideal type of constitutional evolution . In contrast to states which have been forged through processes of revolutionary upheaval , the English state , it has been argued , was the ...
... parliamentary development have been presented as an ideal type of constitutional evolution . In contrast to states which have been forged through processes of revolutionary upheaval , the English state , it has been argued , was the ...
Side 19
... parliamentary sovereignty . Thus Lindsey Keir introduced the constitutional history of Britain to generations of students by declaring : Continuity has been the dominant characteristic in the devel- opment of English government . Its ...
... parliamentary sovereignty . Thus Lindsey Keir introduced the constitutional history of Britain to generations of students by declaring : Continuity has been the dominant characteristic in the devel- opment of English government . Its ...
Side 20
... parliamentary statutes . In the short term , certainly under Henry VIII , we should be careful to distinguish form from substance . The legal form of the English Reformation may have been that of parliamentary statute , but substantial ...
... parliamentary statutes . In the short term , certainly under Henry VIII , we should be careful to distinguish form from substance . The legal form of the English Reformation may have been that of parliamentary statute , but substantial ...
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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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