The silence of constitutions: gaps, "abeyances" and political temperament in the maintenance of government

Preface 1. The Concept and Practice of Constitutional Abeyances 2. Constitutional Abeyances and Crisis Conditions - The Early Stuart Constitution 3. Constitutional Abeyances and Crisis Conditions - The Imperial Presidency 4. Constitutional Gaps and the Arts of Prerogative 5. The Theory of Abeyances and Modern Constitutional Unsettlement in Britain and the United States Bibliography.