| Description |
x, 210 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The legal framework: institutional normative order -- The state and the law -- The interest of the state and the rule of law -- The United Kingdom: what state? what constitution? -- The Benthamite constitution: decline and fall? -- A very British revolution? -- Juridical pluralism and the risk of constitutional conflict -- On sovereignty and post-sovereignty -- Democracy and subsidiarity in the European commonwealth -- Some questions of freedom -- A kind of nationalism -- New unions for old? |
| Summary |
This is a controversial work of applied legal theory, addressing urgent contemporary questions about law and the state, about the character of the UK as a state, and about the juridical character of the European Union |
| Notes |
"Law, state and practical reason" -- Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
European Union -- Great Britain.
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Constitutional law -- European Union countries.
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Law -- European Union countries -- Philosophy.
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Sovereignty.
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State, The.
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| ISBN |
0198268769 |
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