The Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law

by Keith D. Ewing

Book Overview

The Bonfire of the Liberties is a provocative book which confronts the corrosion of civil liberties under successive New Labour governments since 1997. It argues that the last decade has seen a wholesale failure of constitutional principle and exposed the futility of depending on legal rights to restrict the power of executive government. It considers the steps necessary to prevent the continued decline of political standards, arguing that only through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199584788
• ISBN13: 9780199584789
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"