1st Edition
Democracy and the Human Rights Act Republican Analysis of Citizen Power
By Dennis Dixon
Copyright 2017
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book discusses the extent to which the UK Human Rights Act successfully balances protection of rights and democracy. It explores the claim that the Act achieved a reconciliation between the protection of rights and democracy.
1. Introduction 2. Literature review 3. Theoretical framework 4. The nature of democracy 5. Constitutional review – a rights-protection pact 6. The classic constitution 7. Human Rights Act and democracy 8. Reasons for compliance: constitutional conventions, atrophication and internationalisation 9. Legitimate breach 10. Conclusions
Biography
Dennis Dixon is a Legal Adviser to the Law Officers’ Department of the States of Jersey, and tutor at the Institute of Law, Jersey.
