Conventional Model Of British Balance Of Power And Its Modern Change: The Constitutional History Perspective

The British parliament system and the common law jurisprudence system, known as the two backbones of British Constitution, are responsible for its social and economic development in the later period and thoroughly influenced the worldwide institutional development; however, such a crucial institution has not received sufficient focusing in Chinese academic sphere. This article, trying to be a kind of redressing, draws the path of the British constitutional development and, based on this, provides some reflections to the theories of two gurus of this area by combining the static and dynamic approach, and by the combination of the study of institution and main intellectual origins as well.Chapter 2 and 3 are the main body of the dissertation, in which the second chapter firstly introduces the social background in which the conventional model of balance of power was formed; following this is the study to its two institutional backbones and their intellectual origins as well. The third chapter mainly deals with the development of British model of balance of power in the 19th century, which is also known as the process of Constitutional modernization. Correspondingly, this chapter also studies the two intellectual origins responsible for such development. The final part of this chapter studies the continual development of its development mainly in 20th century, which was mainly due to the further social-economy change during the period.The final conclusive chapter, briefly reviewing the development studied in the above two chapters, concludes this trend into three step model by which two reflections are given, one discussing the difference and semblance between the general model provided by Vile and the model provided in this chapter, one discussing Dicey's theory of Parliament sovereignty and its main critics. Some further reflections are also contained in this final part.