Based on the 52nd series of Hamlyn Lectures presented by Professor Anthony King at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, in November 2000, the volume examines the British constitutional tradition and explores where it is now heading. This work presents the views of a leading political scientist on major constitutional issues. It describes no fewer than a dozen major constitutional changes that have taken place over the past 30 years, and it maintains that, although no one seems to have noticed the fact, the traditional British constitution no longer exists. The work insists that there is, as yet, no new constitutional settlement and that the constitution is still in flux. The work also claims that, whereas the tradditional constitution was based on certain fixed and defensible principles, the new constitution is not based on any principles at all.