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Author Blick, Andrew, author

Title The codes of the constitution / Andrew Blick
Published Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Hart studies in constitutional law ; volume 6
Hart studies in constitutional law ; v. 6.
Contents Historic origins of codification -- Codification since 1979 -- Codification in perspective -- The impact of codification -- The office of Prime Minister -- The Cabinet and collective government -- The executive : ministers, departments, and the civil service -- Parliament and executive accountability -- General elections and the formation of governments -- Devolved and local government -- Codification and the rule of law
Summary This book describes an astounding feat of constitutional writing and publication. For a number of decades, officials working across different branches of the United Kingdom (UK) constitution have been engaged in a series of separate projects. Taken in their totality, they amount to a vast enterprise. Yet, until now, no-one has fully recognised or critically analysed what has taken place. There has been a proliferation in the UK of publicly available codes, normally lacking a basis in statute, providing official accounts of a variety of different features of UK constitutional rules and principles. They cover institutions ranging from the Cabinet to the Civil Service to the judiciary, and relationships between entities such as central government and the devolved executives; and between the UK executive and the Westminster Parliament. Among them are prominent texts such as the Ministerial Code, the Cabinet Manual, the Guide to Judicial Conduct and the devolution Memorandum of Understanding - as well as more obscure documents that nonetheless contain important stipulations regarding the operation of the system. Similar developments have taken place in countries including Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The author explores the history of this phenomenon in the UK, how it functions today here and elsewhere in the Commonwealth, and its implications for the UK constitution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Constitutional law -- Great Britain -- Codification
Constitutional history -- Great Britain.
Constitutional & administrative law.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Constitutional history
Politics and government
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056868
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016020003
ISBN 9781509904105
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9781509904099
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