Magna Carta and its modern legacy / edited by Robert Hazell, James Melton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hazell, Robert, editor.

Melton, James, 1981- editor.

Series:

Comparative constitutional law and policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magna Carta.

Constitutional history--Great Britain.

Constitutional history.

Great Britain.

Constitutional history--United States.

United States.

Rule of law.

Civil rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Magna Carta & its Modern Legacy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Magna Carta ... Holy Grail? / James Melton and Robert Hazell

Magna Carta, the rule of law and the reform of the Constitution / Vernon Bogdanor

Eight centuries on : who are Britain's barons now? / Anthony King

What Magna Carta means to the modern British public / Roger Mortimore

The troublesome inheritance of Americans in Magna Carta and trial by jury / Renée Lettow Lerner

Magna Carta, the "sugar colonies" and "fantasies of empire" / Derek O'Brien

Magna Carta frustrated? : institutional delay in the Pacific Island states of the Commonwealth / David Clark

Magna Carta and modern myth-making : proportionality in the "cruel and unusual punishments" clause / Craig S. Lerner

Judicial supremacy : explaining false starts and surprising successes / Victor Menaldo and Nora Webb Williams

More magna than the Magna Carta : Magna Carta's sister

the Charter of the Forest / Geraldine Van Bueren

Michael Oakeshott, the legendary past and Magna Carta / Natalie Riendeau.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316285718

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