Constitutional and administrative law / John Alder.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Table of cases -- Table of legislation -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I The framework of the constitution -- 1. Introduction: constitutional themes and structures -- 1.1 What is a constitution? -- 1.2 Written and unwritten constitutions -- 1.3 The legal and the political constitution -- 1.4 Types of constitution -- 1.5 Public and private law -- 1.6 Resolving disagreement: uncertainty and incommensurability -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 2. Underlying political values: liberalism and republicanism -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Liberalism -- 2.3 Varieties of liberalism in constitutional thought -- 2.4 Freedom -- 2.5 Republicanism -- 2.6 Equality -- 2.7 Democracy -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 3. The sources of the constitution -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Statute law -- 3.3 The common law -- 3.4 Constitutional conventions -- 3.5 Constitutional silence and abeyance -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 4. Historical outline -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Saxon period -- 4.3 The medieval period: the beginning of parliamentary government -- 4.4 The Tudor period: the creation of the state -- 4.5 The seventeenth-century revolution -- 4.6 The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the parliamentary system -- 4.7 The nineteenth and twentieth centuries: democracy and the central state -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 5. An overview of the main institutions of the UK constitution -- 5.1 Introduction: the dignified and efficient constitution: deceiving the people? -- 5.2 Legislature and executive -- 5.3 Non-departmental public bodies: quangos -- 5.4 The judicial branch -- 5.5 Local government -- 5.6 The police and the prosecution system -- 5.7 The Privy Council -- 5.8 The Church of England -- 5.9 Bodies monitoring government standards of behaviour -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- Part II Fundamental principles -- 6. The rule of law -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Historical background -- 6.3 Different versions of the rule of law -- 6.4 The core rule of law -- 6.5 The 'amplified' rule of law -- 6.6 The extended (liberal) rule of law: 'the principle of legality' -- 6.7 The international rule of law -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 7. The separation of powers -- 7.1 Introduction: Montesquieu's doctrine of the separation of powers -- 7.2 The mixed constitution -- 7.3 Other kinds of separation of powers. -- 7.4 Judicial independence -- 7.5 The separation of powers in the UK -- 7.6 Separation of functions -- 7.7 Separation of personnel -- 7.8 Checks and balances -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- 8. Parliamentary supremacy -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The meaning of 'Act of Parliament' -- 8.3 The three facets of parliamentary supremacy -- 8.4 Challenging parliamentary supremacy -- 8.5 Parliamentary supremacy and the rule of law -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- Part III International aspects of the constitution -- 9. The state and the outside world -- sic transit gloria mundi -- 9.1 Introduction: the idea of the state.

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