Index

• Author: Simeon C.R. McIntosh
• Profession: Professor Emeritus of Law at Howard University, Washington, DC
• Pages: 359-368

Abolition of Slavery Law: and conditions

of work for ex-slaves, 2

Amar, Professor Akil Reed: and the

people’s right to amend the US

Constitution, 58–60

Amendment power: limits of

constitutional, 64–66; scope of the

fundamental, 76–78

American Congress: structure and

function of the, 197–199

American Constitution: constituent vs.

legislative authority in constitution

amendment in Article V of the, 80–81;

model of constitution founding, 53–54,

69–75; principles of republican

constitutionalism in the, 157; rejection

of parliamentary sovereignty in the, 84;

and the republican concept of freedom

as non-domination, 122–123; the

republican nature of the, 147–154;

right of the people to amend the, 58–60

American revolution: the rejection of

British authority by the, 99

American Declaration of Independence:

and the issue of popular government,

148–149; and the power of the people

to amend the constitution, 58

Athenian republicanism: model for

American Constitution, 118–123

Autochthony: the American Constitution

and the issue of, 95; the Canadian

Constitution and the issue of, 95;

concept of, 95–96; the Indian

Constitution and the issue of, 96–97;

the Irish Constitution and the issue of,

96–97; the Pakistani Constitution and

the issue of, 96–97

Balfour Declaration (1926): on equal

status between colonial territories and

Britain, 105–106

Barbados: colonial ties to Britain, 29,

107; constitutional devolution in, 89–90;

implications of constitutional status in

the judgement of the Ophelia King v.

A.G. case for, 314–320, 329–331;

process towards

independence in, 30–33;

parliamentary democracy in, 29–30

Barbados Constitution: and constitutional

interpretation of the 1949 statute in

Ophelia King v. A.G, 305–320,

329–331; framing of the, 31–33;

opposition to elements within the,

31–33; private sector participation in

the framing of the, 32; savings clause in

the, 251; and self-identity, 297

Barbados Constitution Review

Commission: and the patriation of the

Constitution, 89; and the rejection of

Senate, 203

Bicameral legislature: in American

republicanism, 148, 149

Bicameralism: in the American

Constitution, 195–197; in the English

Constitution, 194–195; nature of, 194;

and the preservation of democracy,

198–204; nature of the senate under,

202

Bill of Rights: analysis of the, 225–258;

constructive interpretation theory and

the, 324–326; Robert Jackson on the,

225. See also Caribbean Bill of Rights

Bill of Rights (1689), 150, 154, 159;

restriction of royal authority by the,

130, 131, 132

Boodram v. Baptiste: and the Privy

Council’s interpretation of the special

savings clause in the T&T

Constitution, 255–257

Bosworth, Stephen: on constitutional

monarchy, 139

Brennan, Justice William: on the dignity

of man, 232

British Constitution. See English

Constitution

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