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Article: Letter: Referendum Party's Dicey quotation
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 13, 1996
- Author:
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Sir: The Referendum Party's attempt to give its case academic
respectability is spurious.
It quotes extensively from Dicey's introduction to The Study of
the Law of the Constitution, 8th edition, London 1920. But it fails
to point out that the introduction expresses Dicey's personal
views. The idea of a referendum is not mentioned in the main text.
And it only appears in the introduction to the 8th edition when
Dicey - like the Referendum Party - thought ...