Abstract

I propose to present to you some reflections on the impact which constitutions have had on the law governing the relations between management and labour. In many parts of the world that impact has been very considerable, and continues to be so.It may be thought that an analysis of the role thus played by constitutions may perhaps be of absorbing interest to a comparative lawyer, but that it cannot have much practical significance in the United Kingdom. People who argue that way are obviously inclined to agree with De Tocqueville who, when asked what the British Constitution was, said that it did not exist. If the British Constitution does not exist, it may be argued, what is the good of giving in an English University an Inaugural Lecture about the role constitutions may play in the development of labour law?

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