Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution

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Description
The body of this work is the eighth edition, or rather a reprint of the seventh edition, of the Law of the Constitution first published in 1885. It is, however, accompanied by a new Introduction. This Introduction is written with two objects. The first object is to trace and comment upon the way in which the main principles of our constitution as expounded by me may have been affected either by changes of law or by changes of the working of the constitution which have occurred during the last thirty years (1884-1914). The second object of this Introduction is to state and analyse the main con- stitutional ideas which may fairly be called new, either because they have come into existence during the last thirty years, or because (what is much more frequently the case) they have in England during that period begun to exert a new and noticeable influence. It has been my good fortune to receive in the composition of this Introduction, as in the writing of every book which I have published, untold aid from suggestions made to me by a large number both of English and of foreign friends. To all these helpers I return my most sincere thanks. It is at once a duty and a pleasure to mention my special obligation to two friends, who can both be numbered as high authorities among writers, who have investigated the constitution of England from different points of view. To the friendship of the late Sir William Anson I owe a debt the amount of which it is impossible to exaggerate.
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Contents
Outline of Subject
The True Nature of Constitutional Law
Part I  - The Sovereignty of Parliament
    Chapter I - The Nature of Parliamentary Sovereignty
    Chapter II -  Parliament and Non-Sovereign Law-Making Bodies
    Chapter III - Parliamentary Sovereignty and  Federalism
Part II - The Rule of Law
    Chapter IV - The Rule of Law : Its  Nature and General Applications
    Chapter V - The Right to Personal Freedom
    Chapter VI - The Right to Freedom of Discussion
    Chapter VII - The Right of Public Meeting
    Chapter VIII -  Martial   Law
    Chapter IX - The Army   
    Chapter X - The Revenue        
    Chapter XI - The Responsibility of Ministers
    Chapter XII - Rule of Law Compared With Dkoft
    Chapter XIII - Relation Between Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Rule of Law.
Part III - The Connection between the Law of the Constitution and The Conventions of the Constitution
    Chapter XIV - Nature of Conventions of Constitution
    Chapter XV - The Sanction by which the Conventions of the Constitution are
    Enforced
Appendices
Index
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Author Details
A.V. Dicey, K.C., Hon. D.C.L. of the Inner Temple Formerly Vinerian Professor of English Law, Fellow of all Souls College oxford, Hon, LL.D. Cambridge, Glasgow, and Bdinburgh
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