Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy

Herausgeber: Hazell, Robert; Melton, James

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Magna Carta is celebrated around the world as a symbol of limited government and constitutionalism. But in 1215 Magna Carta was a failure, abrogated within months. Why then do we celebrate this piece of parchment? To mark the 800th anniversary this book brings together top scholars from the UK, US and Australia to answer this question and analyse Magna Carta's historic and contemporary influence. Using a political science framework, Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy draws from scholarship on influence and constitutional design to explain how parchment can contain executive power. Individual chapters on Britain discuss such topics as socioeconomic rights in Magna Carta; Magna Carta and the British constitution; and public understanding of the charter. Internationally-focused chapters look at Magna Carta and jury trial in America, slavery in the Caribbean, court delays in the Pacific, the proportionality principle, and judicial supremacy. -- Back cover.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781107112773
• ISBN-10: 110711277X
• Artikelnr.: 42411275

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Magna Cartä Holy Grail? James Melton and Robert Hazell; Part I.
Influence in the UK: 2. Magna Carta, the rule of law and the reform of the
Constitution Vernon Bogdanor; 3. Eight centuries on: who are Britain's
barons now? Anthony King; 4. What Magna Carta means to the modern British
public Roger Mortimore; Part II. Influence around the World: 5. The
troublesome inheritance of Americans in Magna Carta and trial by jury Renée
Lettow Lerner; 6. Magna Carta, the 'sugar colonies' and 'fantasies of
empire' Derek O'Brien; 7. Magna Carta frustrated? Institutional delay in
the Pacific Island states of the Commonwealth David Clark; Part III.
Twenty-First-Century Reflections on Magna Carta: 8. Magna Carta and modern
myth-making: proportionality in the 'cruel and unusual punishments' clause
Craig S. Lerner; 9. Judicial supremacy: explaining false starts and
surprising successes Victor Menaldo and Nora Webb Williams; 10. More magna
than the Magna Carta: Magna Carta's sister ¿ the Charter of the Forest
Geraldine Van Bueren; 11. Michael Oakeshott, the legendary past and Magna
Carta Nathalie Riendeau; Appendix: English translation of Magna Carta
(1215).