The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.