Hostname: page-component-cc8bf7c57-pd9xq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-12T00:43:00.031Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Future of Church Establishment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2010

Bob Morris
Affiliation:
Honorary Senior Research Associate, Constitution Unit, University CollegeLondon

Extract

We continue to live in the remains – as opposed to the ruins – of a confessional state. Ruins may be picturesque but have no life. Remains, however, do have being. The fact that the remains exist formally only in England does not mean they have no impact elsewhere in the UK. On the contrary, they continue to have life at the very apex of the constitution.

Type
Comment
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 See Hansard, Lords, col WS87, 24 February 2005, and Cretney, SMRoyal Marriages: some legal and constitutional issues’, (2008) Law Quarterly Review, 218252Google Scholar.