Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2010
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.
1 See Hansard, Lords, col WS87, 24 February 2005, and Cretney, SM ‘Royal Marriages: some legal and constitutional issues’, (2008) Law Quarterly Review, 218–252Google Scholar.