Constitutional theory
Marshall, Geoffrey
Constitutional theory - Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1980 - 238 p. ; 22 cm.
INTRODUCTION --
1. THE LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION --
1. Austin's View --
2. Maitland's Criticism --
3. Dicey's Doctrine and Its Critics --
II. THE STATE, THE CROWN, AND THEEXECUTIVE --
1. Senses of 'State' --
2. The King and the Crown --
3. The Crown and the Public --
4. The 'State' in the Statutes --
5. 'State', 'Government', and 'Sovereign' --
III. LEGISLATIVE POWER AND SOVEREIGNTY --
1. Indivisibility and Illimitability of Sovereignty --
2. Sovereignty and Entrenchment --
3. The Privy Council Decision in Ranasinghe's Case --
4. Sovereignty, Autochthony, and Independence --
5. Disputed Sovereignty: the Rhodesian Case --
IV. JUDGES AND LEGISLATORS --
1. The Influence of Constitutional and Structural Differences --
2. Characterization of Judicial Attitudes --
3. Judicial Attitudes and Social Justice --
4. Lord Denning on the Judicial Role --
5. Remedies for 'Restrictivism' --
V. THE SEPARATION OF POWERS --
1. Some Ambiguities --
2. Forms of Separation --
3. Separation of Powers and Judicial Review --
4. Separation of Powers and Political Questions --
5. Separation, Delegation, and Mixing of Powers --
6. The Withering of Legislative-Executive Separation --
7. Separation of the Judicial Branch --
8. The Disutility of the 'Separation' Concept --
VI. CIVIL RIGHTS --
1. Procedural Entrenchment --
2. Enforceable Substantive Rights --
3. Judicial Activism and Restraint --
4. Civil and Economic Rights --
VII. EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW --
1. Equal Subjection to Law --
2. Equality of State and Individual --
3. Denial of Equality --
4. Equality, Privacy, and Liberty --
VIII. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ASSEMBLY --
1. Mill's Defence of Free Expression --
2. Speech and Public Order --
3. The American Doctrine of Free Speech --
4. 'Abridgement' as Prior Restraint --
5. Implicit 'Exceptions' to, and 'Absoluteness' of, Free Speech --
6. 'Balancing' of Speech and Other Interests --
7. 'Preferred Position' of Speech --
8. The 'Clear and Present Danger' Test --
9. The Advocacy-Incitement Distinction --
10. Exclusions from Constitutionally Protected Speech --
11. Free Speech Subject to 'Rules of Order' --
12. 'Extended' or 'Symbolic' Speech --
IX. THE RIGHT TO DISOBEY THE LAW: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE --
1. 'Legal', 'Political', and 'Moral' Obligation --
2. General Questions about the Obligation to Obey Law --
3. 'Limits' of Obligation --
4. Meaning of 'Civil Disobedience' --
5. The Obligation to Obey: Arguments from Democracy and Constitutionalism --
6. The Rule of Law --
7. 'Consent' to Government --
8. The 'Availability of Repeal' Argument --
9. Civil Disobedience to Valid Laws --
10. Obligation in Conditions of Uncertain or Disputed Validity --
BIBLIOGRAPHY --
TABLE OF CASES --
LIST OF STATUTES --
INDEX.
Constitutional law -- Great Britain
Constitutions
Constitutions -- Great Britain
KD35.G7.6 M37C 1980
Constitutional theory - Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1980 - 238 p. ; 22 cm.
INTRODUCTION --
1. THE LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION --
1. Austin's View --
2. Maitland's Criticism --
3. Dicey's Doctrine and Its Critics --
II. THE STATE, THE CROWN, AND THEEXECUTIVE --
1. Senses of 'State' --
2. The King and the Crown --
3. The Crown and the Public --
4. The 'State' in the Statutes --
5. 'State', 'Government', and 'Sovereign' --
III. LEGISLATIVE POWER AND SOVEREIGNTY --
1. Indivisibility and Illimitability of Sovereignty --
2. Sovereignty and Entrenchment --
3. The Privy Council Decision in Ranasinghe's Case --
4. Sovereignty, Autochthony, and Independence --
5. Disputed Sovereignty: the Rhodesian Case --
IV. JUDGES AND LEGISLATORS --
1. The Influence of Constitutional and Structural Differences --
2. Characterization of Judicial Attitudes --
3. Judicial Attitudes and Social Justice --
4. Lord Denning on the Judicial Role --
5. Remedies for 'Restrictivism' --
V. THE SEPARATION OF POWERS --
1. Some Ambiguities --
2. Forms of Separation --
3. Separation of Powers and Judicial Review --
4. Separation of Powers and Political Questions --
5. Separation, Delegation, and Mixing of Powers --
6. The Withering of Legislative-Executive Separation --
7. Separation of the Judicial Branch --
8. The Disutility of the 'Separation' Concept --
VI. CIVIL RIGHTS --
1. Procedural Entrenchment --
2. Enforceable Substantive Rights --
3. Judicial Activism and Restraint --
4. Civil and Economic Rights --
VII. EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW --
1. Equal Subjection to Law --
2. Equality of State and Individual --
3. Denial of Equality --
4. Equality, Privacy, and Liberty --
VIII. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ASSEMBLY --
1. Mill's Defence of Free Expression --
2. Speech and Public Order --
3. The American Doctrine of Free Speech --
4. 'Abridgement' as Prior Restraint --
5. Implicit 'Exceptions' to, and 'Absoluteness' of, Free Speech --
6. 'Balancing' of Speech and Other Interests --
7. 'Preferred Position' of Speech --
8. The 'Clear and Present Danger' Test --
9. The Advocacy-Incitement Distinction --
10. Exclusions from Constitutionally Protected Speech --
11. Free Speech Subject to 'Rules of Order' --
12. 'Extended' or 'Symbolic' Speech --
IX. THE RIGHT TO DISOBEY THE LAW: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE --
1. 'Legal', 'Political', and 'Moral' Obligation --
2. General Questions about the Obligation to Obey Law --
3. 'Limits' of Obligation --
4. Meaning of 'Civil Disobedience' --
5. The Obligation to Obey: Arguments from Democracy and Constitutionalism --
6. The Rule of Law --
7. 'Consent' to Government --
8. The 'Availability of Repeal' Argument --
9. Civil Disobedience to Valid Laws --
10. Obligation in Conditions of Uncertain or Disputed Validity --
BIBLIOGRAPHY --
TABLE OF CASES --
LIST OF STATUTES --
INDEX.
Constitutional law -- Great Britain
Constitutions
Constitutions -- Great Britain
KD35.G7.6 M37C 1980
