ABSTRACT
First published in 1989, Michael’s Foley’s book deals with the ‘abeyances’ present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the various ways they are preserved, provide the means by which constitutional conflict is continually postponed. Abeyances are valuable, therefore, not in spite of their obscurity, but because of it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |11 pages
Part I
chapter Chapter one|9 pages
The concept and practice of constitutional abeyances
part |70 pages
Part II
chapter Chapter two|20 pages
Constitutional abeyances and crisis conditions: the early Stuart constitution
chapter Chapter three|24 pages
Constitutional abeyances and crisis conditions: the imperial presidency
chapter Chapter four|24 pages
Constitutional gaps and the arts of prerogative
part |48 pages
Part III