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Legal aspects of constitutional breakdown in the Commonwealth, with particular reference to Nigeria and Southern Rhodesia.

This Thesis aspires to examine and review the recent authoritative analyses of the legal aspects of constitutional breakdown in the Commonwealth, with particular reference to Nigeria and Southern Rhodesia. This work, concerned as it is with legal issues, does not examine the political aspects of constitutional breakdowns. Adherence to the title of this Thesis has thus required the exclusion therein of important political events like the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) and the Pearce Report (1972), CMND. 4964, on opinion in Southern Rhodesia. The Thesis commences with an outline of Kelsen's Theo…