The independent commentary on British political affairs.
The independent commentary on British political affairs.
May 2008
Vol. 11, No. 11
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Albert Venn Dicey has received a bad press recently. Anthony King has called him one of the ‘canonical sextet’ of writers on the constitution but he now mainly represents that ‘primordial Unionism’ — according to McLean and McMillan in State of the Union (2005) — founded on the sovereignty of Westminster and out of fashion in devolutionary times.
Moreover, Dicey’s constitutional arguments are too easily dismissed as Anglo-centric. However, Eng…
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