Author: May, G.H.L. Le.
Title: The Victorian constitution : conventions, usages and contingencies.
Description: London : Duckworth, 1979. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. ix,243 pp. 23 cm. Stamp on title-page. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - This book breaks into unfamiliar ground by examining the nature, origins and consequences of the English constitution between the Reform Bill of 1832 and the outbreak of war in 1914. Its subject matter is those habits, understandings and modes of political activity which were sufficiently understood by the politicians of the time to make extended discussion of them unnecessary. There are many books which examine the legal aspects of the constitution; this one is essentially about politics. Many conventions originated as precedents crystallising about accidents, which became part of the accepted arrange ments of government because they were found to be convenient to the governors. In particular, the book exam Ines such conventions as the 'doctrine of the mandate', the collective responsibility of ministers, the cohesiveness of parties, the relations between the Queen and her ministers, and relations of ministers to both Houses of Parliament and to the electorate. The sources are contemporary and some of them have been published for the first time. ISBN 9780715613535.

Keywords: RECHT, history of law


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