Magna Carta and its modern legacy
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 a...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2015
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| Series: | Comparative constitutional law and policy
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of 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