Bills of rights and decolonization : the emergence of domestic human rights instruments in Britain's...
Bills of rights and decolonization : the emergence of domestic human rights instruments in Britain's...
Bills of rights and decolonization : the emergence of domestic human rights instruments in Britain's overseas territories / Charles O.H. Parkinson.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007.
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N342.41085/13
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English
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xiii, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The protection of rights in Britain and the protection of rights in its territories during colonial rule and at independence -- 3. Sudan -- 4. Malaya -- 5. Ghana -- 6. Nigeria -- 7. The British West Indies -- 8. East Africa -- 9. Epilogue: a policy on bills of rights -- 10. Con...
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007.
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England
Date Published
c2007.
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"It presents an alternative perspective on the end of Empire by focusing upon one aspect of constitutional decolonization and the importance of the local legal culture in determining each dependency's constitutional settlement, and provides a series of empirical case studies on the incorporation of human rights instruments into domestic constitutio...
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Bills of rights and decolonization : the emergence of domestic human rights instruments in Britain's overseas territories / Charles O.H. Parkinson.
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Oxford studies in modern legal history.
Includes bibliographical references( p. 281-291) and index.
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c2007.
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N342.41085/13
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0199231931 (hbk.) :
9780199231935 (hbk.) :
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342.41085
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991001292499702626
