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The Cake of Custom: Parliament
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The Cake of Custom. Jottings on the British Constitution. European Convention on Human Rights. Traditionally, the defining principle of the British constitution was parliamentary sovereignty. As Parliament's website puts it. This doctrine "makes Parliament the supreme legal authority in the UK, which can create or end any law". The doctrine of parliamentary supremacy goes back at least to Tudor. Times, and was upheld by Sir Edward Coke. And Sir William Blackstone. Remain on the books. The Lords never rej...
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The Cake of Custom: March 2012
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The Cake of Custom. Jottings on the British Constitution. European Convention on Human Rights. Saturday, 31 March 2012. How to become a member of the House of Lords. There are currently four ways of becoming a member of the House of Lords. Labels: House of Lords. Sunday, 18 March 2012. The Church of England in court. New post on my religion blog. Tuesday, 13 March 2012. Religion and the law (again). European Convention on Human Rights. Bishops in the Lords. The Governments plans for welfare reform.
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The Cake of Custom: The Lords' Tale
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The Cake of Custom. Jottings on the British Constitution. European Convention on Human Rights. Wednesday, 4 April 2012. This is a rather odd documentary. On the hereditary peers in the House of Lords made by the Canadian filmmaker Molly Dineen. The hereditaries were removed from the House in 1999, with the exception of a rump of 92 who remained under a deal struck between the Conservative Lords leader Lord Cranborne and the Labour Government (which opposed the making of the film). There are some serious ...
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The Cake of Custom: Marriage in English law
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The Cake of Custom. Jottings on the British Constitution. European Convention on Human Rights. Wednesday, 23 May 2012. Marriage in English law. New post on my main blog. Marriage in English law. The Great Deception, Christopher Booker and Richard North. Jesus Before the Gospels" by Bart Ehrman. The end of The Counter-Enlightenment. The Jacobite Intelligencer: Jottings of a Jacobite Antiquary. Richard III’s DNA. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Cake of Custom: The origins of the idea of the mixed constitution
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The Cake of Custom. Jottings on the British Constitution. European Convention on Human Rights. Tuesday, 2 October 2012. The origins of the idea of the mixed constitution. In a previous post. I examined the recurring theme of the mixed and balanced constitution in English constitutional writings. In this post, I want to look at some of the ancient sources of this theme. Similar ideas are found in the work of Plato's pupil Aristotle:. Among Roman writers, Cicero took up the theme in his philosophical writi...
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Reggie's Blog: Lutfur Rahman - More on the judgment
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Book reviews and commentary on politics and other subjects. Saturday, 25 April 2015. Lutfur Rahman - More on the judgment. There has been some critical comment in the blogosphere on Judge Richard Mawrey QC's judgment in the electoral fraud case against Mayor Lutfur Rahman of Tower Hamlets. Https:/ jenizaakson.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/jen-izaakson-a-review-of-the-judgement-of-the-lutfur-rahman-case/. Http:/ davidaslindsay.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-spirit-of-law.html. Mawrey isn't a real judge. The right-...
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Reggie's Blog: February 2015
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Book reviews and commentary on politics and other subjects. Thursday, 26 February 2015. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. I took my nom de net. From this cult BBC comedy classic. Originally broadcast in 1976-1979, it chronicled the nervous breakdown and subsequent improbable adventures of a middle-aged office worker. Sunday, 8 February 2015. The Letters of the Law. English law has spawned not only a vast body of technical writing but also a body of what can more convincingly be called literature.
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Reggie's Blog: May 2015
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Book reviews and commentary on politics and other subjects. Saturday, 9 May 2015. Some thoughts on the UK general election. Here are a few random thoughts on the election results. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Some thoughts on the UK general election. Jesus Before the Gospels" by Bart Ehrman. The Cake of Custom. The debate on the European Convention on Human Rights. The end of The Counter-Enlightenment. Awesome Inc. template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Counter-Enlightenment: September 2011
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What is this blog for? What was the Counter-Enlightenment? Sunday, 25 September 2011. A traditional Catholic theologian on liberalism. The following is an extract from Cardinal Billots De Ecclesia. 1910) It is heavily influenced by de Maistres Essai sur le principe générateur des constitutions politiques et des autres institutions humaines. Corpus Christi in pre-revolutionary France. Pierre de la Gorce paints a picture of the French ancien régime. In his Histoire religieuse de la Révolution française.
