Challenges to authority and the recognition of rights from Magna Carta to modernity
"This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the twenty-second British Legal History Conference held at the University of Reading. The conference coincided with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta; the conference was thus concerned not only with Magna Carta itself but also with it...
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Zusammenfassung: | "This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the twenty-second British Legal History Conference held at the University of Reading. The conference coincided with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta; the conference was thus concerned not only with Magna Carta itself but also with its enduring legacy. The theme around which this legacy is explored is that of challenges to authority and how these challenges result in the recognition of rights. Magna Carta now occupies a quasi-mythical status - particularly within common law jurisdictions - as an instrument which gave people liberty. Lord Denning described it as 'the greatest constitutional document of all times... the spirit of individual liberty which has influenced our people ever since'. Such a description omits the struggle which gave rise to these rights"-- Magna Carta : the emergence of the myth / John Baker -- Benefit of clergy and the authority of Magna Carta / Margaret McGlynn -- How to get rid of a king : lawyering the revolution of 1399 / David Seipp -- Magna Carta and the fragmented authorities of the later Middle Ages / Anthony Musson -- Revolution principles and the revolution bench / Mike Mcnair -- Magna Carta clauses 4 and 5 and the problem of account / Joshua Getzler -- Some effects of war on the law in late 18th and Early 19th-century England / James Oldham -- Tax, freedom and social expectations : fiscal impact on the built environment in nineteenth-century England / Chantal Stebbings -- The Magna Carta in the German discourse about English constitutional law between the 18th and the early 20th century / Andreas Thier -- A Magna Carta for the world? : the constitutional protection of foreign subjects in the Age of Revolution / Daniel Hulsebosch -- The state of slavery : the slave, grace, and the rise of pro-slavery constitutionalism in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / Patricia Hagler Minter -- The royal proclamation of 1763 : an indigenous Magna Carta's rough ride in British Columbia / Hamar Foster -- Law : challenges to authority and the recognition of rights : examples from British India / Raymond Cocks -- Unfortunate necessities of warfare? : Australia's national security regulations and the right to free speech during World War I / Diane Kirkby |
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Beschreibung: | "This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the twenty-second British Legal History Conference held at the University of Reading. The conference coincided with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta ..." (Introduction) |
Beschreibung: | ix, 351 Seiten |
ISBN: | 9781108453363 978-1-108-45336-3 9781108429238 978-1-108-42923-8 |