At a time when constitutional issues are assuming a greater
importance in public life than they have held for perhaps 25 years,
it seems a particularly apt moment to re-publish Walter Bagehot's
classic analysis of the constitution. Major changes to the
constitution are promised by the new Labour government, and the
political controversy over these suggests that changes generated
during the 1997 election campaign have thrust critical analysis of
the constitution once more into the limelight.
The English Constitution provides the most lucid and readable
account of what has been termed the 'Golden Age' of the nineteenth
century constitution, before the advent of universal male suffrage
and the rise of party as the overriding force in the British
polity. Despite being strongly rooted in its time, Bagehot's work
can still provide us with fascinating insights into the basic
nature of the constitution and its organic connections with the
society within which it functions. In sketching connections between
class and political systems, in its use of ideology, in what we
would now term its interdisciplinary approach, Bagehot's study
provides insights and analysis of sometimes startling
modernity.
In this new Introduction, Gavin Phillipson provides a fresh and
distinctly contemporary appraisal of Bagehot's famous work. The
Introduction clearly elucidates how the actual workings of the
constitution have changed since Bagehot's time but powerfully
illuminates the strong continuing value and contemporary relevance
of his analysis.
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