The office of the crown

• Main Author: ALLEN, J.G.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Crown; office; executive government; state theory; Commonwealth; British Empire; Constitutional Law; State and Local Government Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4452; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6410/viewcontent/J.G._Allen___The_Office_of_the_Crown__FINAL_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A troubling veil of mystery still shrouds the central institution of the British Constitution – the Crown. In this paper, I examine the modern utility of five historical doctrines: the doctrine of the “King's two bodies”; the doctrine that the Crown is a “corporation sole”; the doctrine that th...