Who set out the classic 1885 account of the rule of law in the British constitution?
A. V. Dicey set out his influential account of the rule of law in Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, first published in 1885. Ivor Jennings was a…
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Who set out the classic 1885 account of the rule of law in the British constitution?
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A. V. Dicey set out his influential account of the rule of law in Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, first published in 1885. Ivor Jennings was a later constitutional scholar. Winston Churchill and Alec Douglas-Home were British prime ministers.
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Option A
Incorrect: Sir Winston Churchill was a British Prime Minister and statesman, not the constitutional jurist who propounded the doctrine of Rule of Law.
Option B
Incorrect: Sir Alec Douglas-Home was a British Prime Minister and politician, not the jurist who formulated the doctrine of Rule of Law.
Option C
Incorrect: Sir Ivor Jennings (author of The Law and the Constitution) was a noted critic of Dicey's formulation of the Rule of Law rather than its original propounder.
Option D
Correct: Prof. Albert Venn Dicey (A.V. Dicey), Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, systematically propounded the doctrine of the Rule of Law in the British Constitution in his classic work Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885).
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