Constitutional Law

Ian D. Loveland

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040282656
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Law

This title was first published in 2000: This volume of essays explores a number of fundamental constitutional law questions in a variety of historical and jurisdictional contexts. The contributions focus on the role to be played by courts and legal principles in the resolution of major political controversies and on the progressive development of constitutional jurisprudence in countries sharing a broadly common law legal tradition. The guiding theme pervading the collection is an attempt to measure the legitimacy of judicial (in-)activism when courts are faced with difficult political choices on matters such as slavery, internment, racism and voting rights and radical economic policies and are also confronted with the requirement to attach concrete meanings to such abstract concepts as the separation of powers and the rule of law.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Series Preface
• Introduction
• Part I General Principles
• Part II On Slavery
• Part III On Social and Economic Rights Prior to the Keynesian Orthodoxy
• Part IV On the Liberty of the Person in Time of War
• Part V The South(ern) African Crisis of the 1890s and 1950s
• Part VI Changing Perceptions of the Sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament
• Part VII Canada: A Via Media Between British and American Principle?
• Part VIII Freedom of Expression and Political Accountability
• Name Index