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Parliament: Legislation and Accountability (Hart Studies in Constitutional Law) by Alexander Horne, Andrew P. Le Sueur is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Présentation de l'éditeur : "This collection of essays by leading academics, lawyers, parliamentarians and parliamentary officials provides a critical assessment of the UK Parliament's two main constitutional roles-as a legislature and as the preeminent institution for calling government to account. Both functions are undergoing change and facing new challenges. Part 1 (Legislation) includes chapters on Parliament's emerging responsibilities for pre-legislative scrutiny of government Bills and for evaluating proposed legislation against explicit constitutional standards. The impact on legislation of the European Union and the growing influence of the House of Lords are also examined. Part 2 (Accountability) investigates how Parliament operates to scrutinise areas of executive action previously often shielded from effective parliamentary oversight, including national security, war-making powers and administrative justice. There are also chapters on parliamentary reform, including analysis of the House of Commons 'Wright reforms', parliamentary sovereignty, privilege and the European Convention on Human Rights, Euroscepticism, and parliamentary sovereignty and the regulation of lob

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Alexander Horne, Andrew P. Le Sueur
Publisher
Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9781849467162
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Law, Political Science, Constitutional Law

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