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Law and Kingship in Thailand During the Reign of King Chulalongkorn

David M. Engel
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This essay originated in an attempt to bring together the study of law and Thai history in a description of the transformation of Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen from a legal point of view. The resulting work is based for the most part upon those royal enactments from 1873 to 1910 which seemed most crucially to affect the executive, legislative, and judicial functions of the king and the rights of private citizens. [ix]
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1: Changing Theories of Royal Authority, Law and Government
    • A. Theories of Law and Kingship
    • B. Changes in the Administrative Structure
    • Notes
  • Chapter 2: The Legislative Function
    • A. The Early Period: Privy Council and Council of State
    • B. The Later Period: The Legislative Council, Provincial Legislative Powers, and the Legislative Function during the Regency
      • 1. The Legislative Council
      • 2. Provincial Legislative Powers and the Legislative Function during the Regency
      • 3. Comparisons with the Parliamentary System
    • Notes
  • Chapter 3: The Judicial Function
    • A. Transformation of the Judiciary
      • 1. Historical Perspective
      • 2. Structural Reorganization of the Judiciary under King Chulalongkorn
        • A. The Early Period
        • B. The Ministry of Justice and the Bangkok Courts
        • C. The Ministry of Justice and the Provincial Courts
      • 3. New Laws and Procedures for the Thai Judiciary
    • B. Implications of the Change
      • 1. Unification and Extension of the Centralized Judiciary
      • 2. The Distinction between Civil and Criminal Law
      • 3. Appeals
      • 4. Exercise of the Judicial Powers of the King
    • Notes
  • Chapter 4: Rights of Private Citizens
    • A. Social Legislation
    • B. Suits against Government Officials
    • C. The Right to Fair Treatment by the Judicial and Penal System
    • D. Rights of Speech
    • E. The Right to Representation in Government
    • Notes
  • Chapter 5: Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Series List
Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program
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Published: 1975
Publisher: University of Michigan Center for South East Asian Studies
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
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  • 978-0-472-90194-4 (open access)
Series
  • Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia
Subject
  • History:Asian and Southeast Asian History
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