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Publicado por Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1929
Librería: Homeward Bound Books, Campbellcroft, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. 307 p. 24.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Rub wear to corner tips and spine ends. Bottom fore-corners softened. A little light soil to the text block edges. Glue remains from bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, but toned. The dust jacket has heavy wear to the spine ends, and a stain and darkening to the spine. Corners also show wear. The paper has tanned. An essay on civil rights by Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart and the Lord Chief Justice of England. The author asserts that the rule of law in Britain was being undermined by the executive at the expense of the legislature and the courts. The book created "a constitutional and political storm". It was rumoured that Whitehall "considered an attempt to boycott it". In response the British Government appointed the Donoughmore Committee (chaired by Lord Donoughmore) to review the powers of Ministers, however its Report (1932; Cmd. 4060) did not share Hewart's alarm. (from Wikipedia).