After the Supreme Court's game-changing verdict, Paul Seaward of the History of Parliament writes on prorogation: ‘one of the rusting and largely forgotten but still unexploded bombs buried deep in our constitutional arrangements'.
Debated in the 1647 Putney Debates, in the wake of the first English Civil War, the 'Agreement of the People' proposed radical democratic, legal and religious reforms; most significantly a written constitution between the people and their…