Suchergebnisse

Part I: Constitution, State and Beyond -- 1. The British constitutional order -- 2. The ideas of the constitution -- 3. Constitutional sources -- 4. Devolution and the structure of the United Kingdom -- 5. The European dimensions -- Part II: Government -- 6. Crown and government -- 7. The powers of government -- Part III: Accountability -- 8. Parties, groups and the people -- 9. Parliament and the responsibility of government -- 10. The courts: judicial review and liability -- Part IV: Liberty -- 11. Liberty and the Constitution.

European integration and the Treaty on European Union -- Constitutionalism and the 'failure' of the Constitutional Treaty -- The EU institutions -- Community law-making -- Sovereignty and federalism: the authority of EU law and its limits -- Fundamental rights -- Judicial relations in the European Union -- Accountability in the European Union -- The enforcement of European law -- Judicial review: the legal accountability of the Community institutions.

This book examines executive power in the United Kingdom from a British and from a distinctively Scottish perspective. There are chapters on the four common law jurisdictions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States and on the four civil law jurisdictions of France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and on the EU.