Against a written constitution

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Abstract

No one enjoys radical change quite as much as constitutional lawyers. When Gordon Brown hinted that one of the projects of his premiership might include the production of a written constitution for the United Kingdom, he could be sure of a warm welcome from within the faculties of law and politics. The project is attractive to academics for many reasons: there is the fun of debating abstruse constitutional issues, the chance of bringing certainty to areas long characterised by vagueness, and, perhaps, the opportunity to take a privileged role in the construction of the constitutional foundations of the state.[continued within full text].