Democracy in Britain includes a rich and varied selection of key writings, from the debates around Britain's representative and democratic institutions, from constitutional commentary and diaries to poetry and fiction; from Locke and Burke to Dryden and Auden; and from Magna Carta to Spycatcher.

Provides the best resource available for the understanding and study of Britain's system of representative democracy
The editors have made efforts throughout to make the material selected accessible to non-specialists
Rather than following one side of the debate on British democracy, this presents the reader with both sides of the argument
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