A constitution forms the basis of the legal order of the state, but it is also a power-map tracing the normative relationships between the government and citizen. This work presents a collection of essays which offers a political scientist's view of the British constitution. They seek to show why the constitution, having departed from the political agenda in the 1920s, reappeared in the 1970s and has remained part of the agenda despite all the efforts of politicaians to exorcise it.