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The Silence of Constitutions (Routledge Revivals) Gaps, 'abeyances' and political temperament in the maintenance of government
By Michael Foley
Copyright 1989
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1989, Michael’s Foley’s book deals with the ‘abeyances’ present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the various ways they are preserved, provide the means by which constitutional conflict is continually postponed. Abeyances are valuable, therefore, not in spite of their obscurity, but because of it.... Read more
Part 1 1. The Concept and Practice of Constitutional Abeyances Part 2 2. Constitutional Abeyances and Crisis Conditions: The Early Stuart Constitution 3. Constitutional Abeyances and Crisis Conditions: The Imperial Presidency 4. Constitutional Gaps and the Arts of Prerogative Part 3 5. The Theory of Abeyances and Modern Constitutional Unsettlement in Britain and the United States
Biography
Michael Foley
‘Outstanding subtle, important and well-argued’ - Professor Bernard Crick
