Constitution

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  Democratic Civilisation or Judicial Supremacy?

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  David G. Green, March 2016 How should our laws be made and where does final power lie? This question has grown increasingly salient in recent years as the judiciary has pitted itself against Parliament in a series of harmful and absurd rulings. Many of these confrontations have revolved around the Human Rights Act, but far… Read Full Article
  
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  Feel Free to Say it: Threats to freedom of speech in Britain today

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  Philip Johnston, March 2013 Free speech must include the right to say things that most people don’t like or find offensive, otherwise it is no freedom at all. However, Britain is steadily sacrificing its centuries-old commitment to freedom of speech simply to protect people from hearing views they do not like. In this exciting examination… Read Full Article
  
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  Islamophobia

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  Emma Webb (ed.), August 2019 In November 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims published a report proposing a working definition of Islamophobia which described it as ‘a type of racism’. Despite having received barely any public scrutiny or debate, the definition has already been adopted by local councils and political parties. This volume… Read Full Article
  
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  Rebalancing the British Constitution

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  Jim McConalogue, March 2020 The Human Rights Act 1998 is claimed by its advocates to contain fundamental rights that everyone in the UK is entitled to, by incorporating the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic British law. But as Jim McConalogue writes, its 22-year history now testifies to a… Read Full Article
  
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  Strasbourg in the Dock: Prisoner Voting, Human Rights & the Case for Democracy

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  Dominic Raab, April 2011 The ruling that convicted prisoners have the right to vote has put the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg at loggerheads with the UK Parliament and, hence, the will of the British people. This was reinforced in 2011 when backbenchers of all parties rejected enfranchising prisoners in a free vote.… Read Full Article
  
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  The Demise of the Free State

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  David G. Green, April 2014 “The great merit of this brilliant and learned book is that it locates the case for withdrawal in the magnificent British tradition of democracy, liberty and tolerance” – Peter Oborne As the UK fast approaches a crossroads in its relationship with the European Union, Civitas director David G Green contrasts the… Read Full Article
  
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  The Problem with Human Rights Law

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  Michael Arnheim, March 2015 Human rights law has been hijacked in the UK by special interest groups seeking to advance their own rights above those of the rest of the population. The European convention has been repeatedly used in a way that weakens the government’s ability to defend the country from terrorism or to deal… Read Full Article
  
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  The Retreat of Reason

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  Anthony Browne, November 2016 For centuries Britain has been a beacon of liberty of thought, belief and speech in the world, but now its intellectual and political life is in chains. Members of the public, academics, journalists and politicians are afraid of thinking certain thoughts. People are vilified if they publicly diverge from accepted beliefs,… Read Full Article
  
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  The Return of Political Patronage

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  Alasdair Palmer, November 2015 The special adviser – or ‘spad’ – has become firmly established in Westminster folklore over the past two decades, coming to symbolise much that is questionable about modern politics. The likes of Jo Moore, who urged colleagues to use 9/11 to bury bad news, and Damian McBride, who schemed on behalf… Read Full Article
  
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  Total Recall: How direct democracy can improve Britain

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  Nick Cowen, December 2008 Members of Parliament have traditionally enjoyed total legislative supremacy in the United Kingdom, able to pass or rescind any law of the land. Most citizens of Britain probably think that this is still the case. However, in this worrying examination of the dilution of the sovereignty of parliament by its own… Read Full Article
  
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  We’re Nearly All Victims Now!

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  David G. Green, September 2019 Identity politics has been creeping into public discourse for many years. When the first edition of this book was published in 2006, it was already obvious that the politics of victimhood had taken hold. This second, updated edition takes stock of how it has developed since then, particularly in the … Read Full Article
  
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  What Have We Done? The surrender of our democracy to the EU

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  David G. Green, April 2013 Since joining the European Economic Community in 1973, we have steadily lost the power to govern ourselves. In this necessary and insightful book, David Green describes the essential qualities of the free, open and democratic British system which evolved over 1,000 years. Under our constitution, the fact that the government… Read Full Article
  
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