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Queen Elizabeth II’s recent history has seen her break one record after another. In 2015, at the age of 89, she became the UK’s longest reigning monarch. Indeed, she ascended the throne at the age of 25 on the death of her father King George VI on 6 February 1952. When the King of Thailand died in October 2016, Queen Elizabeth II became the ...
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The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present. The monarchy has remained important in British public life long after monarchs ceased, in the early nineteenth century, to govern as well as to reign, and popular legitimacy came to be founded on representation, not the immutability of a sacred hierarchy.
THE BRITISH MONARCHY. FOREw ORd. 2023 will see the coronation of King Charles III as the United Kingdom’s thirteenth monarch, and the sixty-second King of England. For anyone under 70, this will be the first British coronation they have seen. For them, Queen Elizabeth II personified the monarchy. Her death has consequently sparked much ...
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy.3 Possible alternative: The United Kingdom shall be a democracy where the people are sovereign. There shall be a separation of powers guaranteeing an independent and elected executive and legislature, and an independent and impartial judiciary. The United Kingdom shall operate as a Union of ...
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- The History, Law and Politics of the Constitution
- The Shape of This Cambridge History
- Volume I
List of Contributors page viii Editors’ Preface to Volumes I and II xi peter cane and h. kumarasingham part i
One of our main motivations for undertaking this large project was a convic-tion that constitutional history is a subject that receives less attention than it deserves from lawyers, historians and students of politics alike. This is not to say that lawyers are uninterested in the constitutional past; but they tend to focus on its legal aspects and ...
This two-volume Cambridge History is obviously the work of many minds and hands. Traditionally, constitutional histories were the work of a single author. However, in the present intellectual climate it is hard to imagine that any single scholar would be brave – or foolhardy – enough to attempt to bring historical, political, and legal perspectives...
The chapters in Part I of Volume I explore various aspects of and approaches to the constitution and constitutionalism. In Chapter 1 (‘The Historical Constitution’), H. Kumarasingham explains the central place of the consti-tution in British history through three interrelated themes: that the consti-tution is as much a matter of culture and ideas a...
Summary of module content . This course examines London as the historical setting for monarchy and national ceremonial. As such the course considers Royalty’s central place in British life and examines how its purpose and function have changed over the centuries.
monarchy and thus labelled Queen Elizabeth II “Elizabeth the Last”2. These two examples illustrate the interest of the British press in the discussion about the monarchy in the United Kingdom, and in particular about the present sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II. The institution of monarchy has survived in Britain for over one
