What is a conservative disposition? And can it supply any insights into the UK’s changing constitution? We offer answers to these questions by identifying core elements of a conservative disposition and exploring how it offers contingent guidance to public lawyers striving to make sense of a changing constitution. Our goal is to show why a conservative disposition remains relevant to public lawyers, in large measure because, rather than despite, the constitution is changing. We examine the disposition’s relationship with change and review how a conservative disposition offers open-ended guidance on when to pursue change, how to pursue it, how much of it to pursue at any point in time and what reasons should motivate it. After evaluating arguments against the relevance of a conservative disposition to constitutional thought, we relate conservative arguments to two important proposals for constitutional reform: the withdrawal of the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights and a written constitution.

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保守的倾向和宪法的变化

什么是保守的性格？它能否提供有关英国不断变化的宪法的任何见解？我们通过确定保守倾向的核心要素并探索保守倾向如何为努力理解不断变化的宪法的公共律师提供偶然的指导来为这些问题提供答案。我们的目标是展示为什么保守的倾向仍然与公共律师相关，这在很大程度上是因为宪法正在改变，而不是尽管如此。我们研究了性格与变革的关系，并回顾了保守的性格如何就何时追求变革、如何追求变革、在任何时间点追求变革的程度以及应该激励它的原因提供开放式指导。在评估了反对保守倾向与宪法思想相关性的论点之后，