"Le Royaume-Uni a-t-il encore une constitution ?" par Anthony King

"Does the united Kingdom Still Have a constitution?" is a book written by anthony king. It is composed of four chapters based on the Hamly Lectures delivered at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in 2000. The book also contains a short chapter written by John Bridge about the Hamlyn Trust where he talks about the founding of this cycle of lecturers, its development, and its members. This work is seeking to identify the main changes in the British constitution and answering the question asked in the title: "Does the united Kingdom Still Have a constitution?"
The author begins by exposing the organization and the aims of the book. The first step concerns the nature of the changes he will be dealing with. In fact, king explains that he will concentrate on the most important changes and ignore the trivial ones. Details are not to be considered in this work. Secondly; he announces that the rarity of foot-notes and references in his book is a result of his wish to "allow the argument to speak for itself" . Ultimately; he announces that his book is a "Think piece" that aims at discussing the British constitution in a simple manner and that it "makes no claims to scholarly rigour."
Readers immediately feel at ease when reading the book because most of the examples are familiar and well-known. Besides; the author proceeds in a progressive manner in dealing with this big issue. Before going any further in the discussion of the changes in the British constitution he gives a definition of the term 'constitution' in general: "A constitution is the set of the most important rules that regulate the relations among the different parts of the government of a given country and also the relations between the different parts of the government and the people of the country."