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Books on: british constitution history

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The British Constitution

Book by W. Ivor Jennings; The Macmillan Company, 1941

Subjects:

Great Britain--Constitution, Great Britain--Politics And Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...have a long history. Like the British Constitution, too, they...from that history traditions...importance. A constitution is not a...Government, as British people understand...different in history, religion...upset the British Constitution by injecting...
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Government by Committee: An Essay on the British Constitution

Book by K. C. Wheare; Clarendon Press, 1955

Subjects:

Great Britain--Politics And Government

Collections: Entire Library

...effected. Thus in the earlier history of the House of Commons the...the official in his English Constitution he made this observation. The...interests which have a place in the British constitution. In addition to these organizations...
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Women and the United States Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice

Book by Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach, Patricia Smith; Columbia University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Constitutional History--United States, Equal Rights Amendments--United States, Feminist Jurisprudence--United States, Women's Rights--United States, Women--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Women and the United States Constitution HISTORY, INTERPRETATION, AND...Women and the United States Constitution : history, interpretation, and practice...rights-United States. 3. Constitutional history-United States. 4. Equal...
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The People and the Constitution: Being a History of the Development of the People's Influence in British Government

Book by Cecil S. Emden; Clarendon Press, 1956

Subjects:

Democracy, Elections--Great Britain, Great Britain--Politics And Government, Political Parties--Great Britain

Collections: History, Entire Library

...PEOPLE AND THE CONSTITUTION Being a History of the Development...Influence in British Government...to writers on constitutional history. In the present...turning-point in the constitutional history of the people...
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The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant

Book by Thomas Holden; Clarendon Press, 2004

Subjects:

Matter--Constitution--History, Science--Philosophy--History

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing...issue at stake is the constitution and internal architecture...clear case where the history of philosophy can inform...ultimate ground floor constitution of m-indivisible metaphysical...have an ultimate constitution of metaphysical atoms...

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Journal Articles on: british constitution history

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Fighting the Hessian Fly: American and British Responses to Insect Invasion, 1776-1789

Journal article by Philip J. Pauly; Environmental History, Vol. 7, 2002

Subjects:

Agricultural policy, Crops, England, History, Insects, Nonnative species, United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...extent, British, history. Linking migrations...mercantile agent for British forces on the...organization of the constitutional convention...animals life-history and suggesting...debated the Constitution, George Morgan...financial and constitutional crises, opened...context, the British quarantine was...
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The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-century British Honduras

Journal article by Melissa A. Johnson; Environmental History, Vol. 8, 2003

Subjects:

Colonies & territories, History, Honduras, Minority & ethnic groups, Race

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the backbone of British Honduras economic history-woodcutting. Contemporary...moments in Belizean history, exemplify the...dominated colonial British Honduras: a description...Regiment, visited British Honduras, and...areas natural history and the ways in...
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The Postwar Conservation Boom in British Colonial Africa

Journal article by Roderick P. Neumann; Environmental History, Vol. 7, 2002

Subjects:

Central Africa, Conservation, East Africa, Environmental policy, History, Social change

Collections: History, Entire Library

...capacity to consume" British products.26 With...little to do with the history of imperialism and...Julian Huxley (a British national), subsequently...1948. "The draft constitution submitted was very...have a personal history as a conservationist...Teddy Roosevelt of British colonial Africa...
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From Unwritten to Written: Transformation in the British Common-Law Constitution

Journal article by David Jenkins; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 36, 2003

Subjects:

Common law--Political aspects, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Judicial review--Laws, regulations, etc., United Kingdom. Parliament--Powers and duties

Collections: Entire Library

...break from British legal tradition...path of constitutional development...have a long history in the common-law...significant constitutional reform in...continuity with British tradition...English legal history demonstrates...roots in British legal history. Without...fundamental constitutional principles...
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Constituting the Constitution: Understanding the American Constitution through the British Cultural Constitution

Journal article by Garrett Ward Sheldon; Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 31, 2008

Subjects:

Constitutional interpretation--Comparative analysis, Constitutional law--Comparative analysis, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction

Collections: Entire Library

...has attempted to show that the traditional appreciation the British have for their "cultural constitution" as an amalgam of social characteristics gradually evolving through its history--moral, political, economic, religious, educational, familial...

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Magazine Articles on: british constitution history

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Democracy and the British Constitution

Magazine article by Richard A. Gaunt; Contemporary Review, Vol. 291, Autumn 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Democracy and the British Constitution. by Richard A...The Strange Career of British Democracy. David Marquand...authoritative new political history of Britain since 1918...to Prof. Marquand, British political history can best be understood...
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Writing It Down: Gordon Brown's Promised Written Constitution-If It Happens-Won't Be the First in British History, as Patrick Little Reminds Us

Magazine article by Patrick Little; History Today, Vol. 58, January 2008

Subjects:

British constitution--Laws, regulations and rules, Brown, Gordon (British politician)--Laws, regulations and rules, Brown, Gordon (British politician)--Powers and duties, Prime ministers--Laws, regulations and rules, Prime ministers--Powers and duties

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Promised Written Constitution-If It Happens-Wont...the First in British History, as Patrick...the modern British state. This...programme of constitutional reform with...examples of British written constitutions from 350 years...
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The Organic and Moral Elements in the American Consitution - the Constitution Is a Product of Colonial Experience under British Common Law and Other Historic Traditions

Magazine article by Paul Johnson; World and I, Vol. 18, February 2003

Subjects:

Constitutional interpretation, Constitutional law--Analysis, Constitutional law--Ethical aspects, Constitutional law--History, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Constitutions--Ethical aspects, Constitutions--Interpretation and construction, Constitutions--Terminology, Jacksonian democracy, United States Constitution

Collections: Entire Library

...Experience under British Common Law and...primarily in its constitution and, still more...constitutional history" is completely...framework of the British Constitution. To be sure, it...by parliamentary history and by court decisions...
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A Prince in the Promised Land: At the End of the First World War, the British Monarchy Sought to Strengthen Bonds across the English-Speaking World. Frank Prochaska Discusses the Ambassadorial Role Played by Edward, Prince of Wales, in the United States

Magazine article by Frank Prochaska; History Today, Vol. 58, December 2008

Subjects:

British foreign relations--Political aspects, Edward, Earl of Wessex--Powers and duties, Princes--Powers and duties, United States foreign relations--Political aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...headline in the Atlanta Constitution suggested the dangers...the heir to the British throne. A number...Never before in the history of metropolitan...Bagehot, The English Constitution (Oxford University...Prochaska teaches history at Yale. He is the...Americans and the British Monarchy (Yale University...
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Britain's Own C-Word: The Big Question in Coming Months Is How Far the New Leader Will Transform the Machinery of State. David Marquand Argues That We Will Become a True Democracy Only with a Wholly New Constitutional Settlement

Magazine article by David Marquand; New Statesman, Vol. 136, July 2, 2007

Subjects:

British constitution, Brown, Gordon (British politician)--Evaluation, Constitutional amendments--Evaluation, Constitutional amendments--Ratification, Constitutional ratification--Evaluation, Prime ministers--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...envisage a constitution fit for the...dustbin of history. The second...leitmotif of British government...time in its history. And, like...a written constitution, based on...present-day British politics...values and British constitutional orthodoxy...

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Newspaper Articles on: british constitution history

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A SINISTER REVOLUTION; It's Taken 700 Years to Build the British Constitution. and Now This Dying Regime Wants to Tear It to Shreds in Seven Weeks

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 24, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Years to Build the British Constitution. and Now This Dying...the 700-year-old history of the British...any period of the history of Parliament...the regulation of British democracy -- and a giant constitutional step into the unknown...
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Public May Not Get a Vote on EU Constitution, Says No 10

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 19, 2007

Subjects:

European Constitution (Draft)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...right to sign treaties for the first time in history. Four years ago in a ballot organised by the...statement. He said: They are trying to bypass the British public and ram this constitution through without anyone noticing. The constitution...
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EU Treaty Is Simply the Old Constitution Reborn, Says Creator; Valery Giscard d'Estaing

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 18, 2007

Subjects:

Brown, Gordon (British politician)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in its ownright for the first time in history, undermining the authority of memberstates...that thenew amending treaty is the old constitution in a new form. The substance of the constitution is preserved, Mrs Merkel told MEPs lastmonth...
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The Reform Treaty Is Indeed the Rejected Constitution under Another Name

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 16, 2007

Subjects:

Brown, Gordon (British politician)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Rejected Constitution under Another...courtship in British political history has been...governed by a British politician...the present constitutional settlement...rejected Constitution under another...Now, since British supporters...
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Beware Reformers Whose Rush for Change Threatens Our Constitution

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 29, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...House and to history, no better than...thoughts on how the British parliament should...the British constitution. Each part of...we owe to the British constitution, and what a...relation to the British constitution as the Catholic...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: british constitution history

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Constitution , Ship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...most famous vessel in the history of the U.S. navy. Authorized...for Isaac Hull , The Constitution won a battle with the British vessel Guerriere on...later recaptured by the British). The Constitution was condemned (1830...
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Magna Carta

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...famous document of British constitutional history, issued by King...development of the British constitution. Revisions and...incorporated into British statute law. In...supremacy of the constitution over the king, as...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and Northern Ireland, published annually by the British government since 1948 (before 2002 entitled Britain: An Official Handbook ); D. Keir, The Constitutional History of Modern Britain since 1485 (9th ed. 1969); P...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the original group of British settlers in the colonies...republic set up by the Constitution of the United States...the Vice President. History European Exploration...were exacerbated. The British mercantile regulations...in Union After the British and colonial forces...
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Canada

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...replaced the British North America...amend its own constitution. The Canada...Democratic party. History Early History and French-British Rivalry Prior...problem the British passed the Constitutional Act (1791...

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