Sources against
I am far from the only person to question the existence of the constitution – or at least to point out its defects and misleading claims. The following books, articles and websites represent a selection of constitutional sceptics who do not buy into the orthodox ideology. For a conventional reading list on the constitution, click the button at the bottom of the page.
Anderson, P (1964) Origins of the Present Crisis New Left Review 24, reprinted in Anderson: English Questions (London, 1992).
Benn A and Hood, A (1993) Common Sense: A New Constitution for Britain 1993 London: Hutchinson
Chase, M (2007) Chartism: A New History. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Cornford, James et al. (1991). The Constitution of the United Kingdom. London: Institute for Public Policy Research and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Engels F. (1844) Vorwärts! (Paris) No. 75, 18 September
Hill C (1984) The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries London: Verso
Horspool, D. (2010) The English Rebel London: Penguin.
McLynn, F. (2013) The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution 1381-1926. London: Vintage.
Nairn T. (1981) Origins of the British State New Left Review
Nairn, T. (1964) The British Political Elite. New Left Review, 23
Paine T. (1791) Rights of Man Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution London
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
Queen Mary (University of London) (2026) https://www.qmul.ac.uk/news/latest-news/2026/humanities-and-social-sciences/hss/new-report-examines-rise-in-imprisonment-of-protestors-in-britain-.html
Republic: Change the Country for Good https://www.republic.org.uk
Slack P. (ed ) (1983) Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England (16th-18th centuries) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Tocqueville de, A (1835) De la démocracie en Amérique/Democracy in America
Ullmann, W. (1965) A History of Political Thought: The Middle Ages Harmondworth: Penguin
Vallance, E. (2010) A Radical History of Britain Visionaries, Revels and revolutionaries – the men and women who fought for our freedoms. London: Little Brown
Waresquiel, E. de. (2020) Sept jours : 17-23 juin 1789 la France entre en révolution. Paris : Tallandier p267.
The Cavalier Constitution 