The Law of the Constitution (Volume 1) and Comparative Constitutionalism (Volume 2)

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Description
The Oxford Edition of Dicey provides sources with which to reassess the extraordinary authority and lasting influence of Dicey's canonical text The Law of the Constitution. The first volume consists of Dicey's rare first edition in its original form and of the main addenda in later editions. It facilitates a historical understanding of Dicey's original text in its context and of later changes where they  were made. In introducing the first volume. John Allison reassesses The Law of the Constitution's authority and the kinds of response. it has elicited in view of its original educative form and educational context. The volume also includes Dicey's inaugural lecture on the teaching of English Law at the universities and his revisions article published in 1915 examining the development of administrative in England. Volume Two, Comparative Constitutionalism, provides a  complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution. These largely unpublished comparative constitutional lecture were written for different versions of a comparative constitutional book that Docey's began but stopped working on and did not finish prior to his death in 1922. The lectures were pioneering venture into comparative constitutionalism and reveal an approach to legal education broader than Dicey is widely understood to have taken. Topics discussed include English, American, French and Prussian constitutionalism, representative government, the separation of powers, classifying constitutions, and the party system of government. The volume begins with and editorial introduction examining the implications of these comparative lectures and Dicey's early foray into comparative constitutionalism for his general constitutional thought and the kinds of response it has elicited.
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Contents
Volume I
Editor's Introduction to Volume I
PART I    LECTURES INTRODUCTORY TO THE STUDY OF THE LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION (1ST EDITION)
Lecture I      :    The True Nature of Constitutional Law
Lecture II     :    The Sovereignty of Parliament
Lecture III    :    Comparison between  Parliament and Non-sovereign Law-making Bodies
Lecture IV    :    Parliamentary Sovereignty and Federalism
Lecture V     :    The Rule of Law : Its Nature
Lecture VI    :    The Rule of Law : Its Applications
Lecture VII   :    The Rule of Law : Its Applications (cont.)
Lecture VIII  :    The Connection between the Law of the Constitution and the Conventions
                            of the Constitution
PART II    ADDENDA IN LATER EDITIONS OF THE LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION
2nd edition
Preface
3rd edition
Preface
Contents
Chapter IV   :    The Rule of Law : Its Nature and General Applications
Chapter XII  :    The Rule of Law Contrasted with Droit Administratif   
    Note I       :    Rigidity of French Constitutions
    Note II      :    Division of Powers in Federal States
    Note III     :    The Right of Self-Defence
    Note IV     :    Questions Connected with the Right of Public Meeting
    Note V      :    The Meaning of an 'Unconstitutional' Law
Russian edition
foreword by Sir Paul Vinogradoff
4th edition
Preface
Note III         :    Distinction Between a 'Parliamentary Executive' and a 'Non-Parliamentary Executive'
5th edition
Preface
Note VI         :    Duty of Soldiers called upon to Disperse an Unlawful Assembly
Note VIII       :    Swiss Federallism
Note IX         :    Droit Administratif
French edition
Preface de A. Ribot
Preface de A. V. Dicey
6th edition
Preface
Note IX         :    Australian Federalism
Note X          :    English Misconceptions as to Droit Administratif
Note XI         :    Evolution of Droit Administratif
Note XII        :    Marital Law in England During Time of War or Insurrection
7th edition
Preface
Chapter XII  :    Rule of Law Compared with Droit Administratif
Note XI         :    Constitution of the Tribunal des Conflits
Note XII        :    Proceedings against the Crown
8th edition
Preface
Dicey's Introduction
Note XIII       :     Parliament Act, 1911 [1 & 2 Geo. 5. Ch. 13]
Appendics
I     Can English Law Be Taught at the Universities?
II    The Development  of Administrative Law in England
Index
Volume II
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II
PART I    THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CONSTITUTION
Introduction
1.    General Characteristics of Existing English Constitutionalism
2.    Constitutionalism of the Commonwealth
3.    English Constitutionalism under George III
4.    American Constitutionalism
5.    French Constitutionalism (with Appendix, Droit Administratif and Constitution of Year VIII, Art. 75)
6.    Prussian Constitutionalism
7.    Party Government
8.    Parliamentarism
9.    General Conclusion
PART II    THE COMPARATIVE STUDY O CONSTITUTIONS
Introduction — Nature of Comparative Study of Constitutions (analysis)
1.    Historical [Constitutions] and Non-Historical Constitutions (analysis and full text)
2.    Ancient Constitutionalism and Modern Constitutionalism (analysis and full text)
3.    Representative Government (analysis and full text)
4.    The Separation of Powers (two analyses)
5.    Divisions of Constitutions (analysis and full text)
6.    The Judiciary in Relation to the Executive and Legislative Powers (two analyses)
7.    Local Government and Centralization (two analyses)
8.    Federal Government
9.    Federal Government (continued): The Australian Commonwealth (analysis)
APPENDIX — COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM
I     Memorandum of English Party System of Government
II    lecture 4: Comparison between English [Executive] and other Executives or Parliamentary
       and Non-Parliamentary Executives (analysis and full text; Lecture 5: Comparison [between]
       English Executive [and] other Executives (continued) (analysis and full text)
III    Note 2 :    Self-Government
       Note 3 :    Self-Government and Local Self-Government
IV    Modes of Changing or Amending a Constitution (analysis)
V     Authorities and Questions for The Comparative Study of Constitutions
VI    Note 17 ; Conclusion as to French Droit Administratif
VII   Why Universal Suffrage Suits France (full text)
VIII  Scheme of Lectures, 1906
IX    Scheme of Lectures, 1908
Index
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Author Details
A. V. Dicey (1835-1922) was Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and the pre-eminent English constitutional lawyer of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
J. W. F. Allison is Senior Lecture in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge.
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