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A. V. Dicey
Overview
Albert Venn Dicey, (4 February 1835 – 7 April 1922) was a British Whig jurist and constitutional theorist. He is most widely known as the author of Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885). The principles it expounds are considered part of the uncodified British constitution. He became Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, one of the first Professors of Law at the LSE Law School, and a leading constitutional scholar of his day. Dicey popularised the phrase "rule of law", although its use goes back to the 17th century.
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By constitutional law, the crown can refuse its assent to any act of Parliament, and can appoint to office and maintain in it any minister, in opposition to the remonstrances of Parliament. But the constitutional morality of the country nullifies these powers, preventing them from being ever used; and, by requiring that the head of the administration should always be virtually appointed by the House of Commons…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
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DIFFICULTY AND WISDOM OF CORPORATE REFORM. DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF ENGLISH PROTESTANTISM. FICTITIOUS LIBERTY. FRENCH IGNORANCE OF ENGLISH CHARACTER. THE "PEOPLE," AND "OMNIPOTENCE" OF PARLIAMENT. MAGNANIMITY OF ENGLISH PEOPLE. TRUE BASIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY. ROUSSEAU. MORAL HEROES. KINGDOM OF FRANCE. GRIEVANCE AND OPINION. PERPLEXITY AND POLICY. HISTORICAL INSTRUCTION. MONTESQUIEU. ARTICLES, AND SCRIPTURE. PROBLEM OF…
Edmund Burke, Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Edmund Burke
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Ireland was made immediately a partaker. This benefit of English laws and liberties, I confess, was not at first extended to all Ireland. Mark the consequence. English authority and English liberties had exactly the same boundaries. Your standard could never be advanced an inch before your privileges.
Edmund Burke, Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
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