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      • Thomas Poole, London School of Economics and Political Science
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2015
      20 July 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316106099
      9781107089891
      9781107461741
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316106099
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 314 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Constitutional and Administrative Law, Political Theory, Law, Politics and International Relations, Jurisprudence
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law (14)
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    Subjects:
    Constitutional and Administrative Law, Political Theory, Law, Politics and International Relations, Jurisprudence
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law (14)
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    This historically embedded treatment of theoretical debates about prerogative and reason of state spans over four centuries of constitutional development. Commencing with the English Civil War and the constitutional theories of Hobbes and the Republicans, it moves through eighteenth-century arguments over jealousy of trade and commercial reason of state to early imperial concerns and the nineteenth-century debate on the legislative empire, to martial law and twentieth-century articulations of the state at the end of empire. It concludes with reflections on the contemporary post-imperial security state. The book synthesises a wealth of theoretical and empirical literature that allows a link to be made between the development of constitutional ideas and global realpolitik. It exposes the relationship between internal and external pressures and designs in the making of the modern constitutional polity and explores the relationship between law, politics and economics in a way that remains rare in constitutional scholarship.

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