Turpin & Tomkins' British Government and the Constitution : Cambridge University Press : 9781108707381 : 1108707386 : 01 Apr 2021 : "This book is concerned with the organisation, powers and accountability of government in the British constitution. It has always been written from a lawyer's perspective, modified by an awareness that the British constitution is far from being exclusively the handiwork of lawyers. Judges and other practitioners of the discipline of law have made a notable contribution to it, but so have political actors, controversialists of many hues, party organisations, peers, rebels in and out of Parliament and the legions of special interests. Yet lawyers sometimes pretend that the constitution is theirs, teaching and writing about it in myopic isolation. In updating this book, I have endeavoured to continue this tradition. Despite the fact that the UK constitutionseems to have been continually in the news, studying the UK constitution can often seem strange and abst