Author: Jennings, W. Ivor.
Title: The British Constitution.
Description: Cambridge : at the University Press,1946. Reprint. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xvi,232 pp. Index. Stamp on title-page. Dustjacket chipped. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. From the publisher : What can be more of an English institution in the proverbial sense than The British Constitution? Its name is appropriately used in police stations to test sobriety; it is accepted, in England at lesst, as the symhol for anundness and reliability (next to the Bank of England); and yet its unwritten mysteries and its practical resilience are the despair of theorists, It is as unexpected as a person, and seems to be defined only by the fact that it lives and works, It is indifferent to every other objection, Or it is as clumsy and odd and unpredictable as an old farm wagon; its efficiency in action is only more amazing than its inefficiency on paper. Dr Jennings has for some years been occupied in what might be called a biological survey of the various political institutions involved in it, Some of his results have already appeared in larger books (Parliament and Cabinet Government). This book is a discussion of the more controversial and more important problems and difficulties. By it Dr Jennings would give the ordinary British citizen a reasonable and detached introduction to the system in which he plays so large a part, and at the same time would provide for the benefit of friends and crities overseas a simple and reliable account of its growth and funetioning. Written with the casy mastery that explains why Dr Jennings has been untversally accepted as the rightful successor of Dicey in the exposition of constitutional law.. A book that student of goernment should be careful to read: its sense of proportion and its massive common sense are alike remarhable. The Manchester Guardian.

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