The Rape of the Constitution?Keith Sutherland Imprint Academic, 2000 - 370 pages This text is compiled of essays critical of the Government's handling of constitutional reform in relation to Europe, Westminster and devolution, in the late 1990s. |
Contents
Bagehot Revisited | 1 |
Tony Benn How Democratic is Britain? 33353 | 61 |
Gillian Peele New Structures Old Politics? | 115 |
Simon Hughes and Duncan Brack Power Politics | 129 |
Nevil Johnson Parliament Pensioned Off? | 145 |
Bernard Weatherill The Law of Unforseen Consequences | 163 |
Peter Carrington The Lords are ALeaping | 187 |
J R Lucas Constitution and Democracy | 199 |
The Democratic Case | 213 |
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