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The Constitution of the United Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

D. G. T. Williams
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Why not, we are asked, establish a permanent reconciliation between England and Ireland by the conversion of the United Kingdom into a federalised kingdom whereof England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and, for aught I know, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, Shall form separate states? This new constitutional idea of the inherent excellence of federalism is a new faith or delusion which deserves examination.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 1: Jubilee Issue , April 1972 , pp. 266 - 292
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22 H.C., Vol. 822, col. 51 (26 July 1971) (Mr. Anthony Barber): “We would inevitably be overcome and overshadowed by a larger, stronger and richer Europe. Our political influence would dwindle and history would pass us by.”

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30 H.C., Vol. 728, cols. 1555–1556 (19 May 1966) (Mr. Wilson); H.C., Vol. 786, col. 1159 (8 July 1969) (Mr. Wilson); The Times, 30 July 1969, p. 1 (report of speech by Mr. Wilson).

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34 H.C., Vol. 796, col. 1326 (25 February 1970). A variety of views on sovereignty and other issues were expressed during the six-day debate on the Common Market in November 1971—see H.C., Vol. 823, cols. 911 et seq., 1093 et seq., 1234 et seq., 1480 et seq., 1732 et seq., 2076 et seq., See also the debate of October 1971 in H.L., Vol. 324, cols. 529 et seq., 664 et seq., 817 et seq.

35 P.E.P., European Unity (Co-operation and Integration) (1968), p. 189. See generally Schoenbaum, Thomas J., “The Growth of Judicial Power in the European Economic Community” (1969)Google Scholar 48 N. Carolina L.R. 32, 48: “To assure the effectiveness and the implementation of either a federal or a supranational legal order, some type of check must be maintained over the legislative and administrative acts of both the federal or supranational entity and its member states. In the E.E.C., as well as in the United States, much of the responsibility for such control has been delegated to or assumed by the judiciary.”

36 For discussions of Costa v. E.N.E.L. [1964] C.M.L.R. 425, see Schoenbaum's article supra and Eric Stein, “Toward Supremacy of Treaty-Constitution by Judicial Fiat: on the Margin of the Costa Case” (1965) 63 Michigan L.R. 491, esp. at p. 513.

37 See generally de Smith, S. A., “The Constitution and the Common Market: A Tentative Appraisal” (1971)Google Scholar 34 M.L.R. 597; Kahn-Freund, Otto, “Legal Consequences of Common Market,” The Times, 21 May 1962, p. 11Google Scholar; Campbell, Alan, “How the Common Market will affect British Law,” The Times, 16 May 1967, p. 11Google Scholar; J. D. B. Mitchell, “What do you want to be inscrutable for, Marcia?” (or the White Paper on the Legal and Constitutional Implications of United Kingdom Membership of the European Communities) (1967) 5 C.M.L.R. 112; Andrew Martin, “The Accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities: Jurisdictional Problems” (1968) 6 C.M.L.R. 7; N. M. Hunnings, “Constitutional Implications of Joining the Common Market” (1968) 6 C.M.L.R. 50; G. Bebr, “Law of the European Communities and Municipal Law” (1971) 34 M.L.R. 481.

38 H.L., Vol. 323, col. 203 (27 July 1971).

39 H.L., Vol. 323, col. 58 (26 July 1971).

40 See, e.g., Niblock, Michael, The E.E.C.: National Parliaments in Community Decision-Making (1971);Google Scholar Ivor Richard and others, Europe or the Open Sea? (1971); Marsh, Norman S., “The Common Market and the Common Law,” Listener, 15 March 1962, pp. 455–457.Google Scholar

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