Albert Venn Dicey: Writings on Democracy and the Referendum

ISBN-13: 9781108845410 / Twarda / 2023

Albert Venn Dicey

Opis

Collects the writings of the constitutional theorist A.V. Dicey on democracy and the referendum for the first time.

Spis treści

1. The balance of classes (1867); 2. Democracy in Switzerland (1890); 3. Ought the referendum to be introduced into England? (1890); 4. The defence of the union (1892); 5. The referendum (1894); 6. Will the form of parliamentary government be permanent? (1899); 7. The referendum and its critics (1910); 8. The Parliament Act, 1911, and the destruction of all constitutional safeguards (1912); 9. Development during the last thirty years of new constitutional ideas (extract from the introduction to the eighth edition of introduction to the study of the law of the constitution, 1915).