The Monarchy and the Constitution
Vernon Bogdanor
Abstract
Seeks to answer the question `How does monarchy function in a modern democracy?’ Since the British Constitution is so heavily dependent upon history, the question can only be answered historically. The rules that regulate Britain's constitutional monarchy and the so‐called personal prerogatives are then discussed. Three twentieth‐century constitutional crises in which the authority of the sovereign was in question are then analysed. Finally, the book considers how the monarchy is financed, and the relationship between the monarchy and the Church of England and the monarchy and the Commonwealth ... More
Keywords: Church of England, Commonwealth, constitution, constitutional crises, constitutional history, constitutional monarchy, democracy, finance, monarchy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1997 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198293347 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0198293348.001.0001 |
