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Author : Francis Rosebro Flournoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Parliament and War written by Francis Rosebro Flournoy and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Charles Fissel
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719028878
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (288 download)
Download or read book War and Government in Britain, 1598-1650 written by Mark Charles Fissel and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Gray
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750962607
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Who Takes Britain to War? written by James Gray and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-standing parliamentary convention known as the 'Royal Prerogative' has always allowed Prime Ministers to take the country to war without any formal approval by Parliament. The dramatic vote against any military strike on Syria on 29 August 2013 blew that convention wide open, and risks hampering Great Britain's role as a force for good in the world in the future. Will MPs ever vote for war? Perhaps not – and this book proposes a radical solution to the resulting national emasculation. By writing the theory of a Just War (its causes, conduct and ending) into law, Parliament would allow the Prime Minister to act without hindrance, thanks not to a Royal Prerogative, but to a parliamentary one.
Author : Tara McCormack
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030136825
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Britain’s War Powers written by Tara McCormack and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a state of the art discussion of the royal prerogative over war powers in the UK. This issue has received particular attention over proposed military strikes against the Syrian regime and it was claimed by many observers and scholars that parliament now controls decisions in war. However, the record has been mixed– and the most recent decision by Prime Minister May on Syria in 2018 shows that the executive can re-assert prerogative powers and effectively sidestep parliament. The author argues that these dynamics should be seen in the context of the declining authority of the executive and the legislature and in terms of a policy solution, and ultimately she suggests a War Powers Act as a firmer foundation for Britain’s war powers.
Author : Veronika Fikfak
Publisher : Hart Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781509902880
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Parliament's Secret War written by Veronika Fikfak and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parliament's secret war -- A legal war? -- The convention as a battlefield -- The deployment of secrecy -- Re-arming Parliament : fostering politics -- Closed intelligence sessions -- Conclusion
Author : Great Britain. Parliament
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Some Animadversions upon the necessity of continuing the present Parliament during the War with Spain written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Defence of the Realm (liquor Control) Regulations ... written by Great Britain. Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Department for Constitutional Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (762 download)
Download or read book Waging War written by Great Britain. Department for Constitutional Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen Packwood
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473893917
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book How Churchill Waged War written by Allen Packwood and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical investigation into Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s decision-making process during every stage of World War II. When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. This, though, meant that he alone would be responsible for the success or failure of Britain’s war effort. It also meant that he would be faced with many monumental challenges and utterly crucial decisions upon which the fate of Britain and the free world rested. With the limited resources available to the UK, Churchill had to pinpoint where his country’s priorities lay. He had to respond to the collapse of France, decide if Britain should adopt a defensive or offensive strategy, choose if Egypt and the war in North Africa should take precedence over Singapore and the UK’s empire in the East, determine how much support to give the Soviet Union, and how much power to give the United States in controlling the direction of the war. In this insightful investigation into Churchill’s conduct during the Second World War, Allen Packwood, BA, MPhil (Cantab), FRHistS, the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, enables the reader to share the agonies and uncertainties faced by Churchill at each crucial stage of the war. How Churchill responded to each challenge is analyzed in great detail and the conclusions Packwood draws are as uncompromising as those made by Britain’s wartime leader as he negotiated his country through its darkest days.
Author : Jordan S. Downs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526148810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Civil War London written by Jordan S. Downs and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's mobilisation proved crucial to parliament's success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sources, this book shows how and why the City aligned its interests with parliament and how, ultimately, this alignment led to the establishment of an army that would defeat the king of England.
Author : Chris Blanchett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Duty and Democracy written by Chris Blanchett and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Veronika Fikfak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509902902
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Parliament’s Secret War written by Veronika Fikfak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the Coalition Government's failure to win parliamentary approval for armed intervention in Syria in 2013, mark a period of increased scrutiny of the process by which the UK engages in armed conflict. For much of the media and civil society there now exists a constitutional convention which mandates that the Government consults Parliament before commencing hostilities. This is celebrated as representing a redistribution of power from the executive towards a more legitimate, democratic institution. This book offers a critical inquiry into Parliament's role in the war prerogative since the beginning of the twentieth century, evaluating whether the UK's decisions to engage in conflict meet the recognised standards of good governance: accountability, transparency and participation. The analysis reveals a number of persistent problems in the decision-making process, including Parliament's lack of access to relevant information, government 'legalisation' of parliamentary debates which frustrates broader discussions of political legitimacy, and the skewing of debates via the partial public disclosure of information based upon secret intelligence. The book offers solutions to these problems to reinvigorate parliamentary discourse and to address government withholding of classified information. It is essential reading for anyone interested in war powers, the relationship between international law and domestic politics, and the role of the Westminster Parliament in questions of national security.
Author : Alexander Mackintosh
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022036406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)
Download or read book From Gladstone to Lloyd George; Parliament in Peace and War written by Alexander Mackintosh and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed account of the British Parliament during the period of 1880-1920, covering a tumultuous period that saw two world wars and significant social and political changes. Alexander Mackintosh's historical account delves into the key political figures and events of the time, providing valuable insights into the workings of the British government and the broader political landscape. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Gavin Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317121279
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Horses, People and Parliament in the English Civil War written by Gavin Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses played a major role in the military, economic, social and cultural history of early-modern England. This book uses the supply of horses to parliamentary armies during the English Civil War to make two related points. Firstly it shows how control of resources - although vital to success - is contingent upon a variety of logistical and political considerations. It then demonstrates how competition for resources and construction of individuals’ identities and allegiances fed into each other. Resources, such as horses, did not automatically flow out of areas which were nominally under Parliament’s control. Parliament had to construct administrative systems and make them work. This was not easy when only a minority of the population actively supported either side and property rights had to be negotiated, so the success of these negotiations was never a foregone conclusion. The study also demonstrates how competition for resources and construction of identities fed into each other. It argues that allegiance was not a fixed underlying condition, but was something external and changeable. Actions were more important than thoughts and to secure victory, both sides needed people to do things rather than feel vaguely sympathetic. Furthermore, identities were not always self-fashioned but could be imposed on people against their will, making them liable to disarmament, sequestration, fines or imprisonment. More than simply a book about resources and logistics, this study poses fundamental questions of identity construction, showing how culture and reality influence each other. Through an exploration of Parliament’s interaction with local communities and individuals, it reveals fascinating intersections between military necessity and issues of gender, patriarchy, religion, bureaucracy, nationalism and allegiance.
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622984X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Behemoth or The Long Parliament written by Thomas Hobbes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behemoth, or The Long Parliament is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. Behemoth, completed around 1668 and not published until after Hobbe's death, represents the systematic application of this framework to the English Civil War. In his insightful and substantial Introduction, Stephen Holmes examines the major themes and implications of Behemoth in Hobbes's system of thought. Holmes notes that a fresh consideration of Behemoth dispels persistent misreadings of Hobbes, including the idea that man is motivated solely by a desire for self-preservation. Behemoth, which is cast as a series of dialogues between a teacher and his pupil, locates the principal cause of the Civil War less in economic interests than in the stubborn irrationality of key actors. It also shows more vividly than any of Hobbe's other works the importance of religion in his theories of human nature and behavior.
Author : Richard Huzzey
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781119489726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Pressure and Parliament written by Richard Huzzey and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the varied forms of parliamentary pressure in the period between the civil wars and the advent of universal suffrage in the twentieth century. The authors examine the ways in which parliament accepted, invited, or moulded channels of political pressure from those outside their ranks and outside the electoral process Chapters highlight the technologies of growth of private and public petitioning, the pressure to act on new national and international questions, and the ways in which parliamentarians themselves orchestrated pressure Includes a range of insights into the collaborative porousness of political pressures on parliament, not simply as the force of ‘pressure from without’
Author : Dr John Lynch
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750951389
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Bristol and the Civil War written by Dr John Lynch and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century Bristol was the second city of England. It was the main west coast port, an internationally important entrepot and rich trading centre. Industry flourished, too, with manufacturing and processing industries like soap making and gunpowder production responsible for Bristol's considerable wealth. In consequence, control of the town became one of the chief objectives of both armies during the civil war which raged in England in the 1640s. Beginning the war under Parliamentarian control, the city changed hands twice, with each transfer having a major effect of the war effort of both sides. This new study argues that when the Royalists captured Bristol in July 1643 they gained not only the city, but also the materials and facilities that literally allowed them to remain in the war. Under Royalist rule Bristol became a vital centre for military and government activities, as well as a centre for importing arms from Europe and becoming almost the alternative Royalist capital. The loss of Bristol in 1645 was therefore a huge blow to the Royalist cause. This book is surely one of the most important written on the civil wars in recent times. Its radical reinterpretation of the pivotal role of England's second city will ensure it a place on bookshelves of anyone interested in the most turbulent years of the seventeenth century.
