There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the ...

Reproduction of the original: The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot

In one of Walter Bagehot's most prominent works, the English constitution is described, not from law books and as a lawyer would describe it, but from the actual working, as ...

In this classic 1867 publication, Walter Bagehot (1826-77) sought to describe the 'living reality' of how Britain was governed.