Tengku Mahmud Mahyiddeen and the Dilemma of Partisan Duality

Lingering recollections of Pattani's proud tradition as an independent state were crystallized into a popular desire for the separation of the predominantly Malay Southern Provinces from Thailand, largely as a result of the aggressively nationalistic policies of Phibul Songkhram's wartime administration; when the war ended, widely circulated rumours encouraged Malays in the area to believe that the United Kingdom intended to annex the region to British Malaya as part of a peace settlement. Although this hope was dashed by the Agreement between the two countries of January 1, 1946, the idea of separation from Thailand continued to provide a goal towards which a variety of groups struggled by means ranging from polemics to sporadic acts of violence.

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Part I Constitutional History, D The British Constitutional Tradition, Ch.5 The British Legal Tradition in Canadian Constitutional Law

10.1093/law/9780190664817.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Walters Mark D

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

North America ◽

Constitutional Law ◽

Constitutional History ◽

Legal Tradition ◽

Independent State ◽

British North America ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Constitutional Tradition ◽

Structure And Design

This chapter examines the influence of the British legal tradition within Canadian constitutional law. The foundational text of Canada’s constitution, the British North America Act, 1867, was adopted when Canada was still a UK colony, and so it is hardly surprising that this influence would prove to be important—even after Canada emerged as an independent state. Still, the assertion in the preamble to the 1867 Act, that Canada’s constitution is ‘similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom’, must be approached cautiously. The leading British constitutional scholar A.V. Dicey went so far as to describe this assertion as a piece of ‘official mendacity’. The analysis in Section 2 of this chapter focuses upon institutional structure and design. Here, it will be seen that Dicey was wrong. The analysis in Section 3 of the chapter is on the interpretive ethic or what Dicey called the ‘spirit’ of the constitution.

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The “Exclusion” of the United Kingdom from the Anzus Pact

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300031118 ◽

1958 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 320-329 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dean E. McHenry ◽

Richard N. Rosecrance

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

New Zealand ◽

Far East ◽

The United States ◽

Peace Treaty ◽

Political Leaders ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Far East ◽

The Pacific ◽

Peace Settlement

The signing of the ANZUS Pact represented a confluence of attitudes. Australia and New Zealand were disturbed at the liberal Japanese peace treaty, while the United States wanted the treaty to go through with as little opposition as possible. All three countries were afraid of the march of communism in the Far East. The ANZUS Treaty made the Japanese peace settlement palatable to the Pacific Dominions, and at the same time it improved the channels of military cooperation in the Pacific. The significance of ANZUS lay as much in what it did not say as in its formal provisions; the United Kingdom was not included in ANZUS, and its absence gave rise to an extended debate in several countries. There were objections from certain Australian and New Zealand political leaders, and in the United Kingdom the Conservatives lamented “exclusion” while the Labor government declared “… it would not have been unwelcome to us if we had been included in the proposed pact”.

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