Essays on the history of parliamentary procedure : in honour of Thomas Erskine May / edited by Paul Evans.
Contributor(s): May, Thomas Erskine, Baron Farnborough [honouree.]
| Evans, Paul [editor.] | ProQuest (Firm) [distributor.]Series: Hart studies in constitutional law ; volume 7Publisher: Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2017Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781509900206; 9781509900220; 9781509900213Subject(s): May, Thomas Erskine, Baron Farnborough, 1815-1886. Treatise on the law, privileges, proceedings, and usage of Parliament | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons -- Rules and practice | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons -- Officials and employees -- Biography | Parliamentary practice -- Great Britain -- History | Constitutional law -- Great BritainGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 328.4105 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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"This book was originally conceived as a tribute to Thomas Erskine May to celebrate the 200th anniversity of his birth..." --Preface, Page v.
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A sycophant of real ability : the career of Thomas Erskine May / William McKay -- Slumber and success : the House of Commons Library after May / Oonagh Gay -- Magi or mandarins? : contemporary clerkly culture / Emma Crewe -- Persuading the House : the use of the Commons journals as a source of precedent / Martyn Atkins -- Manuals before May : from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century / David Natzler -- Parliamentary law in the eighteenth century : from commonplace to treatise / Paul Seaward -- From manual to authority : the life and times of the treatise / Paul Evans and Andrej Ninkovic -- Controversy at the antipodes (and elsewhere) : the international cousins of the treatise / David Natzler, David Bagnall, Jean-Phillipe Brochu and Peter Fowler -- The principle of progress : May and reform / William McKay -- May on money : supply proceedings and the functions of a legislature / Colin Lee -- A history of the standing orders / Simon Patrick -- Pursuing the efficient despatch of business : the role of committees in procedural reform since 1900 / Mark Egan -- Finding time : legislative procedure since May / Jacqy Sharpe and Paul Evans -- Where did it all go right : developments in select committees, 1913-1960 / Mark Hutton -- A road not taken : select committees and the estimates, 1880-1904 / Colin Lee -- Privilege : the unfolding debate with the courts / Eve Samson -- Is the lex parliamentaria really law? : the House of Commons as a legal system / David Howarth.