Douglas-Scott, Sionaidh,

Brexit, union, and disunion : the evolution of British constitutional unsettlement / Sionaidh Douglas-Scott. - x, 522 pages : illustrations - Law in context . - Law in context. .

I. Five case studies of acts of union and disunion -- Scotland : union and devolution -- Ireland -- Britain's loss of its North American colonies in the eighteenth century -- The constitutional status of the British Empire and Commonwealth -- Britain and Europe -- II. Five themes -- Sovereignty -- Unions and disunions -- Federalism, devolution and differentiation -- Democracy and referendums -- Human rights.

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European Union--Great Britain.


Constitutional law--History.--Great Britain
Sovereignty--History.

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