Magna Carta and its modern legacy / 
edited by Robert Hazell, James Melton. 
 - xii, 272 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Comparative constitutional law and policy .
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<br/><br/>Magna Carta ... Holy Grail? / James Melton and Robert Hazell -- Magna Carta, the rule of law and the reform of the Constitution / Vernon Bogdanor -- Eight centuries on : who are Britain's barons now? / Anthony King -- What Magna Carta means to the modern British public / Roger Mortimore -- The troublesome inheritance of Americans in Magna Carta and trial by jury / Renée Lettow Lerner -- Magna Carta, the "sugar colonies" and "fantasies of empire" / Derek O'Brien -- Magna Carta frustrated? : institutional delay in the Pacific Island states of the Commonwealth / David Clark -- Magna Carta and modern myth-making : proportionality in the "cruel and unusual punishments" clause / Craig S. Lerner -- Judicial supremacy : explaining false starts and surprising successes / Victor Menaldo and Nora Webb Williams -- More magna than the Magna Carta : Magna Carta's sister -- the Charter of the Forest / Geraldine Van Bueren -- Michael Oakeshott, the legendary past and Magna Carta / Natalie Riendeau. 
<br/><br/> Magna Carta is celebrated around the world as a symbol of limited government and constitutionalism. But in 1215 Magna Carta was a failure, abrogated within months. Why then do we celebrate this piece of parchment? To mark the 800th anniversary this book brings together top scholars from the UK, US and Australia to answer this question and analyse Magna Carta's historic and contemporary influence. Using a political science framework, Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy draws from scholarship on influence and constitutional design to explain how parchment can contain executive power. Individual chapters on Britain discuss such topics as socioeconomic rights in Magna Carta; Magna Carta and the British constitution; and public understanding of the charter. Internationally-focused chapters look at Magna Carta and jury trial in America, slavery in the Caribbean, court delays in the Pacific, the proportionality principle, and judicial supremacy. -- Back cover. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107112773 110711277X 9781107533103 1107533104 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>40024955635 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015010903 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB554681  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>017171783  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Magna Carta<br/>Magna Carta.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Constitutional history--United States<br/>Rule of law<br/>Civil rights<br/>Civil rights.<br/>Constitutional history.<br/>Rule of law.<br/>Constitutional history--Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain.<br/>United States.<br/>United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JN147  / .M34 2015