The Short Answer
I started this site because nobody else was going to do it for me.
That sounds blunt, but it is the truth. For years I have been researching the constitutional foundations of English law — Magna Carta, common law, the rights of the freeborn Englishman — and for years I have struggled to find a single place where this research is presented clearly, honestly, and without an agenda that distorts the material.
Some of the existing material on these subjects is excellent. Much of it is not. There is a great deal of noise — conspiracy theories dressed up as legal argument, half-understood principles repeated as gospel, genuine insight buried under layers of poor scholarship. I wanted a place where the research could speak for itself.
The Longer Answer
My interest in constitutional law did not begin as an academic exercise. It began with a question that I suspect many people have asked themselves at some point: by what authority?
By what authority does any government claim the right to govern? By what authority does any court claim jurisdiction? By what authority is any law imposed upon a free man? These are not rhetorical questions. They have answers. Those answers are found in the constitutional record — in Magna Carta, in the Petition of Right, in the Bill of Rights 1689, and in the common law tradition that predates all of them.
The more I studied these questions, the more I found that the answers pointed in a direction I had not expected. They pointed upward. The English constitutional tradition is not a secular invention. It is rooted in a Christian understanding of authority, law, and the relationship between the governed and the governor. The Coronation Oath is a covenant. The common law is grounded in natural law. And natural law, as Blackstone wrote, derives from “the will of the Maker.”
Faith and Law
I am a Protestant Christian. I do not hide this, and I do not apologise for it. My faith is not separate from my constitutional research — it is the foundation of it. The two streams converge in the conviction that all legitimate authority derives from God, and that human law, at its best, is a reflection of divine law.
This is not a popular position in 2026. The modern tendency is to treat law as purely man-made — a product of social contract, parliamentary procedure, and judicial interpretation. But the historical record tells a different story. The men who wrote Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and the Bill of Rights understood themselves to be acting under a higher authority. To strip that context away is to misunderstand the documents entirely.
What This Site Is
This site is my workbench. It is where I publish research, document my findings, and think out loud about the questions that occupy me. It is not a campaign. It is not a movement. It is one man’s attempt to understand the constitutional and spiritual inheritance of these islands, and to make that understanding available to others.
I write about theology because the sovereignty of God is the starting point. I write about law because the constitutional record is where that sovereignty is documented in human affairs. I write about history because without understanding where we have been, we cannot understand where we are.
If any of this resonates with you, welcome. There is much work to do.
— Michael