Please see the question in the title. I'm asking merely about the bolded phrase below.
Are there books written for teenagers that expound why the British started to disrespect and question their gov't starting in 1960s?
Q1. Please see the question in the title.
Q2. Are there books written for teenagers that expound why the British started to disrespect and question their gov't starting in 1960s?
But around 1966, 900 years after the Battle of Hastings and since then, things have changed. The judges have got much more, if you like, powerful or influential. It started with an enormous growth of judicial review, that is, judges reviewing and overriding decisions made at various levels of government, all the way from ministers down to local planning authorities, and quashing their decisions if they didn't comply with the law. I think that the judges did this much more for a number of reasons:
- one was the executive had got more and more powerful.
- Secondly, I think that people had got more and more ready, after the Second World War and after life had calmed down, to get more assertive of their rights, had got more educated and more informed.
- And thirdly with the 1960s, a period none of you can remember but I can, people got much more questioning, much more disrespectful, and people were much more ready to challenge the government. And over the years from 1960 to 2000, those 40 years, the number of cases where the government's decisions were challenged increased from a few tens a year to almost ten thousand a year.