Book contents
- The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
- The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors’ Preface
- Part I Perspectives
- Part II Actors and Institution
- 11 Monarchy
- 12 Legislatures
- 13 The Executive and the Administration
- 14 Judiciaries
- 15 Coercive Institutions
- 16 Locality, Regionality and Centrality
- 17 Political Parties
- Part III Politics
- Index
13 - The Executive and the Administration
from Part II - Actors and Institution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2023
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
- The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors’ Preface
- Part I Perspectives
- Part II Actors and Institution
- 11 Monarchy
- 12 Legislatures
- 13 The Executive and the Administration
- 14 Judiciaries
- 15 Coercive Institutions
- 16 Locality, Regionality and Centrality
- 17 Political Parties
- Part III Politics
- Index
Summary
The history of the relationship between the executive and the administration has been largely invisible to lawyers and constitutional law. The provision of the Magna Carta 1215 in which King John promises to ‘[ ] appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well’ is not well known.
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- The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom , pp. 335 - 358Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023