The launch of the Democracy Matters report on Citizens' Assemblies in Sheffield and Southampton gives us an opportunity to tease out the different understandings of why 'participation' matters. 

Returning to Wales, David Marquand finds that devolution has created a political community interestingly open to new possibilities.

The people of south Yorkshire want devolution - but they also want the process to be much more democratic.

'English Votes for English Laws' is supposed to answer the 'West Lothian question' – yet the government's English devolution policy is recreating the same question in a new form.

What is the potential significance of Jeremy Corbyn refusing to bend his knee to the Queen?

The people of England need to discover their sovereignty and make a constitution of their own. Here are some ideas.

Two experimental citizens' assemblies in Sheffield and Southampton, starting this month, show the way forward for debating constitutional change across the UK.

Republicanism brings into sharp focus an articulation of common freedoms strived for under extremely varying political conditions, in different times and places, with the shared commonality of facing unequal odds.

This year is the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. But what exactly was Magna Carta?

Political inequality and disengagement are increasing. Is a Democracy Commission part of the solution?

Can we turn 'devolution' from above into 'self-determination' from below? What would this look like in Yorkshire?

If Magna Carta is the cornerstone of liberty, why did the Levellers, democratic radicals of the 17th century, reject it as 'containing many marks of intolerable bondage'?

If Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership he should try to reach agreement with all progressive groups for an electoral pact aimed at creating a constitutional convention in the new parliament, only this will build on the energy his candidacy has inspired.

Why wait until 2020? The Labour Leadership candidates should assemble as many as are willing and get a constitutional convention going now in time to legislate in 2020.

Further devolution to Wales is necessary but must be considered as part of a shift to a federal UK. A constitutional convention is the way to make this happen.

Phil England asks Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy, about the UK's constitutional crisis and the relevance of Iceland's constitutional convention.

As nature's greatest commons powers ever more of our economy, is it time to start asking who owns it?