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The Once and Future Constitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2013

David Marquand
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Government and Opposition , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , 2011 , pp. 274 - 292
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2011.

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2 Hailsham, Lord, The Dilemma of Democracy: Diagnosis and Prescription, London, Collins, 1978 Google Scholar.

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4 For the text of the original charter see http://www.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/?page_id=551

5 For the text see Owen Dudley Edwards (ed.), A Claim of Right for Scotland, Polygon, Edinburgh, 1989.

6 For my interpretation of all this see my Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2008, chapter 2.

7 There is an excellent account of this episode in McLean: see Iain McLean, What's Wrong with the British Constitution?, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 100–25.

8 Anthony King, The British Constitution, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 351 and 47.

9 Nigel Lawson, The View from No.11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical, London, Corgi Books, 1993, p. 64.

10 Vernon Bogdanor, The New British Constitution, Oxford and Portland, OR, Hart Publishing, 2009, p. 285.

11 Ibid., p. 310.

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14 McLean, What's Wrong with the British Constitution?, p. 187.

15 King, The British Constitution, p. 252.

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17 More than half, if you include the democratization of Spain, Portugal and Greece as well as that of the 12 new member states in East and Central Europe.