Correspondence and papers on constitutional issues, with correspondents including: John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Central Office, on the Italian constitution; Kenneth Wheare, Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford (2); "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne] on the South African constitution; Sir Charles Rey, former Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate [later Botswana] on the South African constitutional crisis; Sir David Keir (2); Lord Eustace Percy; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley] on reconstruction of Government.

Also includes: Commonwealth Relations Office note on the constitutional position of the Australian states; press cuttings; article and lecture by Kenneth Wheare on the British constitution in 1947 and the machinery of government; article by [Philip] Nicholas Mansergh, Abe Bailey Research Professor of British Commonwealth Relations at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, on the Crown and changing Commonwealth; Conservative Political Centre survey of the history and powers of the House of Lords, with notes and annotations by LSA; memorandum by LSA on the nature of the constitution; papers on the constitutional significance of delegated legislation and the place of Parliament in the legislative process, by John Griffith, Lecturer in Administrative Law, University of London; lecture on monarchy and the party system, by Sir Lewis Namier; print of correspondence between 1st Lord Byng, Governor-General of Canada, and [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, on the dissolution of the Canadian Parliament, 1926; Dominions Office memorandum on the constitutional crisis in New South Wales, Australia, 1925-26; paper by Sir Henry Badeley [Clerk of the Parliaments] on the House of Lords as a second chamber; paper by Richard Fitzgerald [Reader in English Law, University College, London] on reform of the House of Lords; rough notes by LSA; article by T E Utley [Peter Utley] on the political mandate; Colonial Office paper on the organisation of the colonial service.