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Book The Veiled Sceptre

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Twomey
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-04-12
  • ISBN : 1107056780
  • Pages : 913 pages

Download or read book The Veiled Sceptre written by Anne Twomey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extension to other Realms of the reserve power to refuse a dissolution

Book The King and His Dominion Governors

Download or read book The King and His Dominion Governors written by Herbert Vere Evatt and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1967-02-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Australian national bibliography

Download or read book Australian national bibliography written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1961 with total page 1818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Royal Power of Dissolution of Parliament in the British Commonwealth

Download or read book The Royal Power of Dissolution of Parliament in the British Commonwealth written by Eugene A. Forsey and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comparative Constitutional Design

Download or read book Comparative Constitutional Design written by Tom Ginsburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issues.

Book The Royal Prerogative and Constitutional Law

Download or read book The Royal Prerogative and Constitutional Law written by Noel Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the royal prerogative in terms of its theory, history and application today. The work explores the development of the royal prerogative through the evolution of imperial government, and more recent structural changes in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the Commonwealth. While examining specific prerogative powers, the development of justiciability of the prerogative, and the exercise of the prerogative, it lays bare the heart of constitutionality in the Westminster system of government. There is said to be a black hole of unaccountable authority at the heart of the constitution and it is this which this book examines. The focus is upon the constitutional development of the United Kingdom and the old dominions of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This approach is comparative and historical, using specific case studies of such events as the dissolution of Parliament and the appointment and dismissal of Prime Ministers. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Constitutional Law and Politics.

Book The Invisible Crown

    Book Details:
  • Author : David E. Smith
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442615850
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book The Invisible Crown written by David E. Smith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First edition published 1995; this edition, with new preface, 2013"--T.p. verso.

Book The Veiled Sceptre

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Twomey
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-04-26
  • ISBN : 1108563635
  • Pages : 913 pages

Download or read book The Veiled Sceptre written by Anne Twomey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive review and analysis of the reserve powers and their exercise by heads of state in countries that have Westminster systems. It addresses the powers of the Queen in the United Kingdom, those of her vice-regal representatives, and those of heads of state in the less studied realms and former colonies that are now republics. Drawing on a vast range of previously unpublished archival and primary material, The Veiled Sceptre contains fresh perspectives on old controversies. It also reveals constitutional crises in small countries, which have escaped the notice of most scholars. This book places the exercises of reserve powers within the context of constitutional principle and analyses how heads of state should act when constitutional principles conflict. Providing an unrivalled contemporary analysis of reserve powers, it will appeal to constitutional scholars worldwide and others involved in the administration of systems of responsible government.

Book Eugene A  Forsey

Download or read book Eugene A Forsey written by Frank Milligan and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unusual biography of one of Canada's most well-known public figures, author Frank Milligan traces the intellectual foundations on which Eugene Forsey's world-view was constructed. By studying Forsey's beliefs--both religious and political--Milligan unearths the philosophical underpinnings of many of Canada's early twentieth-century political, economic, religious, and social reform movements.

Book Red  White  and Kind of Blue

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Schneiderman
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442629487
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Red White and Kind of Blue written by David Schneiderman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American direction. Through the prorogation crises of 2008 and 2009, its senate reform proposals, and the appointment process for Supreme Court judges, Stephen Harper's Conservative government has repeatedly shown a tendency to push Canada further into the US constitutional orbit. Red, White, and Kind of Blue? is a comparative legal analysis of this creeping Americanization, as well as a probing examination of the costs and benefits that come with it. Comparing British, Canadian, and American constitutional traditions, David Schneiderman offers a critical perspective on the Americanization of Canadian constitutional practice and a timely warning about its unexamined consequences.

Book Canada s Governors General  1847 1878

Download or read book Canada s Governors General 1847 1878 written by Barbara Jane Messamore and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oft-ignored in the study of Canadian history or dismissed as a vestige of colonial status, the governor general's office provides essential historical insight into Canada's constitutional evolution. In the nineteenth century, as today, individual governors general exercised considerable scope in interpreting their approach to the office. The era 1847-1878 witnessed profound changes in Canada's relationship with Britain, and in this new book, Barbara J. Messamore explores the nature of these changes through an examination of the role of the governor general. Guided by outmoded instructions and constitutional conventions that were not yet firmly established, the governors general of the time - Lord Elgin, Sir Edmund Head, Lord Monck, Lord Lisgar, and Lord Dufferin - all wrestled with the implications of colonial self government. The imprecision of the viceregal role made the character of the appointee especially important and biographical details are thus essential to an understanding of how the new experiment of colonial self-government was put into practice. Messamore's book marries constitutional history and biography, providing illumination on some of the key figures of nineteenth-century Canadian politics.

Book Governing without a Majority

Download or read book Governing without a Majority written by David Butler and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-11-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors

Download or read book The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors written by David E. Smith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it’s the first-past-the-post electoral system or partisan government appointees to the Senate, Canadians want better representation and accountability from the federal government. Before reforms can be enacted, however, it is important to explore and clarify the relationships among Canada’s three parliamentary institutions: Crown, Senate, and Commons. In The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors, David E. Smith presents a learned but accessible analysis of the interconnectedness of Canada’s parliamentary institutions. Smith argues that Parliament is a unity comprised of three parts and any reforms made to one branch will, whether intended or not, affect the other branches. Through a timely, nuanced, and comprehensive examination of parliamentary debates, committee reports, legal scholarship, and comparative analysis of developments in the United Kingdom, Smith uncovers the substantial degree of ambiguity that exists among Canadians and their calls for structural and operational reforms. By illuminating the symbiotic relationship between the Crown, Senate, and Commons, The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors brings government reform closer to reality.

Book Australia   s American Constitution and the Dismissal

Download or read book Australia s American Constitution and the Dismissal written by David Long and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Long traces the cause of the 1975 constitutional crisis to the influence of English legal positivism, a theory which isolates the meaning from the political scheme the text was framed to support. He shows the fundamental premise of a Constitution, framed in Convention, ratified by the people that cannot be altered without their consent, the consent of the governed. Legal positivism was adopted by the High Court in 1920 when it abolished the federal scheme and therewith the sovereign States. The responsible judge had opposed federalism at the 1897 Convention. Long examines two juristic opinions that excused the Governor-General’s 1975 unprecedented dismissal of a government with the confidence of the House of Representatives. He identifies their reliance on legal positivist constitutional interpretations that are expressly rejected by the Founders. Long provides a theoretical defence of the Founders original understanding as the object of constitutional construction.

Book John A  MacDonald

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald Creighton
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2018-06-11
  • ISBN : 1487518773
  • Pages : 1000 pages

Download or read book John A MacDonald written by Donald Creighton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1952 and 1955, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain remains a classic in Canadian arts and letters. Described as the greatest biography ever written in Canada, it earned Donald Creighton two Governor General's Awards. In 2013, the Toronto Review of Books recommended it to anyone who wished to become a better Canadian. In this book, Creighton examines the public and private lives of Canada’s first prime minister, his victories and defeats as well as his joys and pains. A gifted writer, Creighton takes the reader back in time, to the nineteenth century, the road to Confederation, and the building of the railway. Along the way, he visits Kingston, Quebec, Charlottetown, Ottawa, and London, following his hero from a few rooms above his father’s shop in Kingston to the corridors of power in England, including the magnificent Highclere Castle where much of the British North America Act was written. This edition includes a new introduction by Creighton's biographer, Donald Wright, and by Peter Waite, Creighton's very first doctoral student.