TY - BOOK AU - Marshall, Geoffrey TI - Constitutional theory PY - 1980/// CY - Oxford : PB - Clarendon Press, KW - Constitutional law -- Great Britain KW - Constitutions KW - Constitutions -- Great Britain N1 - INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION -- 1. Austin's View -- 2. Maitland's Criticism -- 3. Dicey's Doctrine and Its Critics -- II. THE STATE, THE CROWN, AND THEEXECUTIVE -- 1. Senses of 'State' -- 2. The King and the Crown -- 3. The Crown and the Public -- 4. The 'State' in the Statutes -- 5. 'State', 'Government', and 'Sovereign' -- III. LEGISLATIVE POWER AND SOVEREIGNTY -- 1. Indivisibility and Illimitability of Sovereignty -- 2. Sovereignty and Entrenchment -- 3. The Privy Council Decision in Ranasinghe's Case -- 4. Sovereignty, Autochthony, and Independence -- 5. Disputed Sovereignty: the Rhodesian Case -- IV. JUDGES AND LEGISLATORS -- 1. The Influence of Constitutional and Structural Differences -- 2. Characterization of Judicial Attitudes -- 3. Judicial Attitudes and Social Justice -- 4. Lord Denning on the Judicial Role -- 5. Remedies for 'Restrictivism' -- V. THE SEPARATION OF POWERS -- 1. Some Ambiguities -- 2. Forms of Separation -- 3. Separation of Powers and Judicial Review -- 4. Separation of Powers and Political Questions -- 5. Separation, Delegation, and Mixing of Powers -- 6. The Withering of Legislative-Executive Separation -- 7. Separation of the Judicial Branch -- 8. The Disutility of the 'Separation' Concept -- VI. CIVIL RIGHTS -- 1. Procedural Entrenchment -- 2. Enforceable Substantive Rights -- 3. Judicial Activism and Restraint -- 4. Civil and Economic Rights -- VII. EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW -- 1. Equal Subjection to Law -- 2. Equality of State and Individual -- 3. Denial of Equality -- 4. Equality, Privacy, and Liberty -- VIII. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ASSEMBLY -- 1. Mill's Defence of Free Expression -- 2. Speech and Public Order -- 3. The American Doctrine of Free Speech -- 4. 'Abridgement' as Prior Restraint -- 5. Implicit 'Exceptions' to, and 'Absoluteness' of, Free Speech -- 6. 'Balancing' of Speech and Other Interests -- 7. 'Preferred Position' of Speech -- 8. The 'Clear and Present Danger' Test -- 9. The Advocacy-Incitement Distinction -- 10. Exclusions from Constitutionally Protected Speech -- 11. Free Speech Subject to 'Rules of Order' -- 12. 'Extended' or 'Symbolic' Speech -- IX. THE RIGHT TO DISOBEY THE LAW: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE -- 1. 'Legal', 'Political', and 'Moral' Obligation -- 2. General Questions about the Obligation to Obey Law -- 3. 'Limits' of Obligation -- 4. Meaning of 'Civil Disobedience' -- 5. The Obligation to Obey: Arguments from Democracy and Constitutionalism -- 6. The Rule of Law -- 7. 'Consent' to Government -- 8. The 'Availability of Repeal' Argument -- 9. Civil Disobedience to Valid Laws -- 10. Obligation in Conditions of Uncertain or Disputed Validity -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- TABLE OF CASES -- LIST OF STATUTES -- INDEX ER -