The English Constitutional Convention is a pressure group lobbying for a devolved English Parliament.
The English Constitutional Convention aims to bring about the same constitutional changes achieved by the Scottish Constitutional Convention which ultimately secured a devolved Parliament and Executive for Scotland. However, the English Constitutional Convention faces a far greater challenge, despite devolution already having been implemented everywhere else in the UK, as English devolution is officially opposed by all the main British political parties.
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“Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay at all. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)