The Political Constitution Revisited

15 Pages Posted: 18 Jan 2018

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Martin Loughlin

London School of Economics - Law School

Date Written: November 27, 2017

Abstract

In his 1978 Chorley Lecture on ‘The Political Constitution’, John Griffith presented a critical appraisal of contemporary trends in British constitutional thinking from a functional perspective. This lecture has recently been revived by a new generation of public law scholars as the founding text of an emerging school of ‘political constitutionalism’. In this paper, I argue that today’s political constitutionalists have distorted Griffith’s method and thereby misconstrued its significance. In doing so, they have also obscured the orientation of their movement.

Suggested Citation

Loughlin, Martin, The Political Constitution Revisited (November 27, 2017). LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 18/2017, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3077947 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3077947

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