Beschreibung:
A group of essays, many given at the annual Scarman seminar run by the Constitutional Reform Centre in 1987-88, and now published to coincide with the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights, re-examining the principles and practice of the constitution since 1688.
Time and chance - a constitutional retrospective, M.Brock; constitutionalism and the new politics, M.Elliot; change in local government, N.Deakin; sovereignty, centralism and devolution, B.Crick; Britain and Europe - the myth of sovereignty, V.Bogdanor; Bill of Rights and law reform, Lord Scarman; citizenship and the modern social conflict, R.Dahrendorf; parties, parliament and PR, R.Holme; official secrecy and freedom of information, J.Cornford; making government responsible to parliament, J.Grigg; Whitehall and the Civil Service, W.Plowden.