Written with wit and a lifetime's insight by the doyen of British political commentary, this book is a major re-evaluation of that elusive entity, the British constitution.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria's reign. He argued that the late Victorian constitution was not at all what people thought it was. Anthony King argues that the same is true at the beginning of this century. Most people are aware that a series of major constitutional changes has taken place, but few recognize that their cumulative effect has been to changeentirely the nature of Britain's constitutional structure. The old constitution has gone. The author insists that the new
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