(2) Defining Constitutionalism We will employ Fred Ridley's (1988: p. 317) broad definition of a constitution as: ...the whole system of government of a country, the collection of rules, written and unwritten, which regulate the government'. ... Britain's unwritten constitution and its disaggregated system of laws, conventions and principles have tended to obscure the definition of the function and powers of the institutions of the state. Secondly, the British constitution's unwritten' or unformalised' nature, as Neville Johnson (1977) h...

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Political parties or factions were considered evil as "Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority- Public perception of factions were related to British excesses and thought to be "the ...

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Aristotle's Ideal State should be situated in such a place so that it would be hard for an enemy to attract and easy for an expeditionary force to depart from. ... By modern definition, Aristotle would surely be considered racist, classist and sexist all at the same time and this is true. ... This was inherent in nature, so he did not challenge the institution of slavery. ...

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Firstly, a brief definition of Libertarianism. ... In the early twentieth century there was a war Americans won and a Depression Americans beat, all of which catered the impression that government was an effectual force that could solve all and fix all. ... Hayek, and the brilliant philosopher author Ayn Rand waged war against the swelling arbitrary nature of the United States government. ... As I mentioned earlier Libertarians believe in a society where government plays a limited role in the everyday lives of its citizens; they see government solely as an institution responsible for protec...

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