Andrew Blick is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History and Director, Centre for British Politics and Government, King’s College London. He was research fellow to the first ever public inquiry into the possibility of adopting a written constitution for the United Kingdom, conducted by the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee during 2010-2015. In 2016, he was an adviser to the Welsh Government on its intervention at the Supreme Court in the Article 50 Miller case.

Stretching the Constitution by Andrew Blick, a constitutional scholar, is refreshing in that it employs a unique approach by seeking to place Brexit within the wider context of constitutional reform debates going back over the course of the past century... The historical context provided to contemporary debates is insightful, but also very instructive in introducing the modern reader to materials of which they would in many instances have been ignorant or unaware. Anyone who purports to be a scholar of constitutional affairs should read Stretching the Constitution.

• IntroductionPart 1: Brexit and the constitutionChapter 1 The constitutional connotationsChapter 2 The basis for the 2016 referendum: law, politics and the constitutionPart 2: The Past and the FutureChapter 3 Multi-state organisationsChapter 4 Advocating the referendumChapter 5 Representative democracy: reform and challengeChapter 6 Programmes for ParliamentChapter 7 The territorial constitutionChapter 8 The executive: organisation, power and constraintChapter 9 The digital constitutionConclusions

Andrew Blick is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History and Director, Centre for British Politics and Government, King’s College London. He was research fellow to the first ever public inquiry into the possibility of adopting a written constitution for the United Kingdom, conducted by the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee during 2010-2015. In 2016, he was an adviser to the Welsh Government on its intervention at the Supreme Court in the Article 50 Miller case.

Stretching the Constitution by Andrew Blick, a constitutional scholar, is refreshing in that it employs a unique approach by seeking to place Brexit within the wider context of constitutional reform debates going back over the course of the past century... The historical context provided to contemporary debates is insightful, but also very instructive in introducing the modern reader to materials of which they would in many instances have been ignorant or unaware. Anyone who purports to be a scholar of constitutional affairs should read Stretching the Constitution.

• IntroductionPart 1: Brexit and the constitutionChapter 1 The constitutional connotationsChapter 2 The basis for the 2016 referendum: law, politics and the constitutionPart 2: The Past and the FutureChapter 3 Multi-state organisationsChapter 4 Advocating the referendumChapter 5 Representative democracy: reform and challengeChapter 6 Programmes for ParliamentChapter 7 The territorial constitutionChapter 8 The executive: organisation, power and constraintChapter 9 The digital constitutionConclusions

Andrew Blick is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History and Director, Centre for British Politics and Government, King’s College London. He was research fellow to the first ever public inquiry into the possibility of adopting a written constitution for the United Kingdom, conducted by the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee during 2010-2015. In 2016, he was an adviser to the Welsh Government on its intervention at the Supreme Court in the Article 50 Miller case.

Stretching the Constitution by Andrew Blick, a constitutional scholar, is refreshing in that it employs a unique approach by seeking to place Brexit within the wider context of constitutional reform debates going back over the course of the past century... The historical context provided to contemporary debates is insightful, but also very instructive in introducing the modern reader to materials of which they would in many instances have been ignorant or unaware. Anyone who purports to be a scholar of constitutional affairs should read Stretching the Constitution.

• IntroductionPart 1: Brexit and the constitutionChapter 1 The constitutional connotationsChapter 2 The basis for the 2016 referendum: law, politics and the constitutionPart 2: The Past and the FutureChapter 3 Multi-state organisationsChapter 4 Advocating the referendumChapter 5 Representative democracy: reform and challengeChapter 6 Programmes for ParliamentChapter 7 The territorial constitutionChapter 8 The executive: organisation, power and constraintChapter 9 The digital constitutionConclusions