Neil Maccormick

Questioning Sovereignty

Law, State and Nation in the European Commonwealth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The case is finally pressed home in relation to the relations of Scotland to the other countries of the British Isles, and an argument put for the idea of mutual independence within a Council of the Isles and the European Union.

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This is a book about the transformation of sovereignty in the United Kingdom and the European Union, about the transition from 'sovereign states' to 'post-sovereign states', about devolution and nationalism and the future of the British union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780199253302
• ISBN-10: 0199253307
• Artikelnr.: 22434272

Autorenporträt

The late Neil MacCormick was Regius Professor of Public Law at the University of Edinburgh and a Member of the European Parliament.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Legal Framework: Institutional Normative Order
2: The State and the Law
3: The Interest of the State and the Rule of Law
4: The United Kingdom: What State? What Constitution?
5: The Benthamite Constitution: Decline and Fall?
6: A Very British Revolution?
7: Juridical Pluralism and the Risk of Constitutional Conflict
8: On Sovereignty and Post-Sovereignty
9: Democracy and Subsidiarity in the European Environment
10: Some Questions of Freedom
11: A Kind of Nationality
12: New Unions for Old