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competing conceptions of the Westminster Parliament's sovereignty. In issue has been whether or how parliamentary sovereignty … of the Constitution'. The dichotomy was, on the one hand, of a formal legal conception of Parliament's sovereignty as … limitless in theory and, on the other hand, of a substantive political conception of its sovereignty as limited in actuality …
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This article provides a new perspective on sovereign finance and money in England from pre-modern to early modern times. Re-reading the literature on sovereign fiscality through the lens of sovereign jurisdictions and religious authority, it describes two distinct forms of sovereign finance: the...
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history … history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in … followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular …
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Canada has had a fiscal equalization system since 1957, and equalization was formally embedded in the constitution in 1982. However, the rationale for equalization, how the concept is defined and applied, and what its effects are or should be are all issues that continue to be vigorously debated...
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the suburbanization of population in European cities. This is considered a major issue in Europe, which has never been …
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