Against a written constitution

In: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ade1af17-7a2b-48d8-95c5-0b225aa11037

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].