TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hazell,Robert
AU  - Melton,James
TI  - Magna Carta and its modern legacy
T2  - Comparative constitutional law and policy
SN  - 9781107112773
AV  - JN147 .M34 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Magna Carta
KW  - fast
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - United States
KW  - Rule of law
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
KW  - gtt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -