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............................................................................................................................DescriptionThe fundamental legal and institutional changes of recent decades lave brought the English constitution into question. Accompanying issues have been the extent to which its traditional character and main features have been changed, lost their former appeal and retained their distinctness in the European union. These issues are not readily addressed in everyday thinking about a constitution simply conceived as unwritten or in constitutional accounts variously preoccupied with abstract analysis, political accountability or transcendent norms.The English Historical constitution addresses these issues by developing a historical constitutional approach and thus elaborating on continuity and change in the constitution's main doctrines and institutions. From an English legal perspective, it offers a complement or corrective to analytical, political and normative approaches by reforming an old conception of the historical constitution and of its history, partly obscured and long neglected through the modern analytical preoccupation with its law as an abstract scheme of rules, principles and practices.............................................................................................................................Contents1. Introduction 2. A historical constitutional approach• Dicey's analytical approach• A descriptive analytical legacy• Dicey's methodological predicament• The historical constitution• Towards a methodological reformation• Aims and method• The liberal normativist alternative• The political constitution• Complementary and competing points of view• The historical constitution's relevance 3. The Crown: evolution through institutional change and conservation • The medieval European matrix • The Crown as a corporation sole • English constitutional adaptation • Later European influences: Maitland and modernisation • The impact of Community law • Domestic English resources • English peculiarities and European influences • Sources of rationality and legitimacy 4. The separation of powers as a customary practice • The French standard • Early English advocacy • Historic legislation on judicial power and judicial tenure • Doctrinal scepticism ............................................................................................................................Author DetailsJohn Allison is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Queen’s College.............................................................................................................................
