The Silence of Constitutions (Routledge Revivals): Gaps, 'Abeyances' and Political Temperament in the Maintenance of Government - Image 1

£41.58

Routledge The Silence of Constitutions (Routledge Revivals): Gaps, 'Abeyances' and Political Temperament in the Maintenance of Government

Name: The Silence of Constitutions (Routledge Revivals): Gaps, 'Abeyances' and Political Temperament in the Maintenance of Government
Brand: Routledge
Price: 36.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Law

Price History & Forecast

Last 89 days • 89 data points

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 89 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £37 (83 days, 93.3%)

Price range: £37 - £42

Price levels: 2 different prices over 89 days

Description

First published in 1989, Michael’s Foley’s book deals with the ‘abeyances’ present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the various ways they are preserved, provide the means by which constitutional conflict is continually postponed. Abeyances are valuable, therefore, not in spite of their obscurity, but because of it. The author illustrates his point with analyses of constitutional crises from both sides of the Atlantic. He examines the period leading up to the English civil war in the seventeenth century, and the ‘imperial presidency’ episode under Richard Nixon in the late 1960s and 1970s in the USA. In both cases there was no constitutionally correct solution available but, as the author demonstrates, the political skill of the participants in their use of constitutional devices allowed the anomalies of the American system to survive in a way that contrasted markedly with the plight of Charles I and the Stuart constitution. This reissue of a landmark study will be welcomed by all those interested in the interpretation and construction of constitutional law.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0415696321
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Law
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 January 2013
Listed Since: 08 July 2011

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge The Silence of Constitutions (Routledge Revivals): Gaps, 'Abeyances' and Political Temperament in the Maintenance of Government

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture

Decolonizing Constitutionalism: Beyond False or Impossible Promises (Epistemologies of the South)

Digital Constitutionalism: The Role of Internet Bills of Rights (Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies)

The Negotiable Constitution: On the Limitation of Rights

Public Finance and Parliamentary Constitutionalism

Constitutional Bargaining in Russia, 1990-93: Institutions and Uncertainty (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

Governing Security: Explorations of Policing and Justice

Devolution and British Politics

The Politics of the Sacred in America: The Role of Civil Religion in Political Practice

Constitution Making during State Building

Resilience: The Governance of Complexity (Critical Issues in Global Politics)

Ambiguity in EU Law: A Linguistic and Legal Analysis (Law, Language and Communication)

Cultures of Silence: The Power of Untold Narratives (Routledge Studies in Material Culture and Politics)

Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution

Resilience of Democracy: Responses to Illiberal and Authoritarian Challenges

Italy: From the First to the Second Republic

Poetry and Revolution: The Poets and Poetry of the Constitutional Era of Iran (Iranian Studies)

Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases

Power Beyond Constitutions: Presidential Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe (Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics)

Making British Defence Policy: Continuity and Change (Routledge Advances in Defence Studies)

Responsive Legality: The New Administrative Justice

The Future of the International Criminal Court: Reform, Consensus, and Relations with the USA

Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill

Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities (Radical Cultural Studies)