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Beyond Magna Carta: A Constitution for the United Kingdom
Beyond Magna Carta A Constitution for the United Kingdom Author:Andrew Blick This work argues that the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta (in 2015) should be the occasion for a reassessment of the past, present, and future of the UK constitution. It considers a series of historical documents from Anglo-Saxon times onwards - among which Magna Carta is the most prominent - which sought to set out arrangements for the governa... more »nce of England and later the UK as a whole. The book argues that they comprise a powerful tradition of written constitutional documents, and it stresses the importance of the European dimension to their introduction and content. It then considers the present nature of the UK constitution, describing the period of immense flux through which it has passed in recent decades, and the implications of this phase of change. The book identifies a need for a full written constitution for the UK as the next appropriate step, and it discusses the democratic processes suitable to devising such a text, as well as what its contents might be. [Subject: Legal History, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law]« less