An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution

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Cosgrove, Richard A. (1980). The Rule of Law: Albert Venn Dicey, Victorian jurist. London: Macmillan.

Separation of powers is often regarded as a second limb functioning alongside the rule of law to curb the powers of the government. In many modern nation states, power is divided and vested into three branches of government: The legislature, the executive, and the judiciary are known as the horizontal separation of powers. The first and the second are harmonised in traditional Westminster system. [17] Vertical separation of powers is decentralisation. The third is that the general ideas and principles that the constitution supports arise directly from the judgements and precedents issued by the judiciary. "We may say that the constitution is pervaded by the rule of law on the ground that the general principles of the constitution... are with us the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the courts" [16] The separation of powers [ edit ] Walters, Mark D. (2012). "Dicey on Writing the "Law of the Constitution" ". Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. 32 (1): 21–49. doi: 10.1093/ojls/gqr031. Democracy entails that citizens of a state decide on issues concerning themselves and their state. But how this plays out in practice can depend on a model of democracy. Should all citizens vote on every issue? Should representatives be elected to vote on behalf of citizens? If so, how should those representatives be elected and how should they be held to account to citizens? Models of democracy can differ on the answers to these questions.Sheppard, Stephen M. (2008). "Dicey, Albert Venn (1835–1922)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Cato Institute. pp.123–134. doi: 10.4135/9781412965811.n77. ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024. Constitutional supremacy has various implications for a state, state actors, and persons within a state’s jurisdiction, primarily that the rules in a constitution both establish and constrain the exercise of state power [2]. A state can only act in terms of its constitution. If it exceeds the bounds of the constitution its conduct is legally invalid. H Barnett, Constitutional and Administrative Law (5th edn Cavendish 2005) 9, "A written constitution is one contained within a single document or a [finite] series of documents, with or without amendments"

Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution is a book by A. V. Dicey about the constitution of the United Kingdom. It was first published in 1885. In the book's third edition, published in 1889, its title was changed to Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. [6] A seventh edition appeared in 1907. [7] By its eighth edition, published in 1915, a reviewer for the American Political Science Review wrote that Introduction was "accepted as a standard work on the English constitution". [8] Dicey wrote a long introduction to the eighth edition in which he argued that the rule of law had declined in Britain since the first edition of Introduction was published. [9] A ninth edition was published in 1939. [10] Philip Norton wrote in a 1984 book that Introduction was the "most influential work of the past century" on the British constitution. [11] The doctrine of the rule of law dictates that government must be conducted according to law. This was first established by British legal theorist A. V. Dicey. Foley, Michael (1989). The Silence of Constitutions: Gaps, "Abeyances," and Political Temperament in the Maintenance of Government. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-03068-4. OCLC 19126066. Dicey, A. V. (1959). Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (10ed.). London: Macmillan.Various provisions relating to the National Assembly, such as proportional representation (section 57). This 8th edition, published in 1915, was the last edition written by Dicey. The 9th edition (1931) and 10th edition (1959) have an introduction and appendix by E.C.S. Wade Richards, Edward P.; Katharine C. Rathbun (1999-08-15). Medical Care Law. Jones & Bartlett. p.6. ISBN 978-0-8342-1603-7. Garner, Bryan A. (2001). A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd, reviseded.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-19-507769-8. In modern usage, common law is contrasted with a number of other terms. First, in denoting the body of judge-made law based on that developed in England... [P]erhaps most commonly within Anglo-American jurisdictions, common law is contrasted with statutory law ...