Essays on British Constitution

Throughout the centuries the British monarchy has always been involved with the governance of the realm. Yet some would argue that due to its age it has become far too undemocratic to be included and hold a representative government. Is the British constitutional monarchy too...

Constitutional Conventions are non-legal but nonetheless binding rules of constitutional behaviour. The Government’s Cabinet Manual describes conventions as constitutional practices that are regarded as binding in operation but not in law. This highlights that constitutional conventions play a significant importance in the modern-day British Constitution...

On October 14th, 2019, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom delivered a speech in the British Parliament and was rated as a “farce” by Diane Abbott, the spokesperson for the British Labor Party’s internal affairs. This is also a microcosm of the Queen’s recent...

Should the United Kingdom adopt a written constitution? It is popularly believed that the United Kingdom has an uncodified constitution comprising several sources. There are those who suggest it should be codified and others who support that it should not be changed and stay the...

Although there have been debates around the world regarding the Nature of the UK constitution and its success and failure in the modern world, we all can see and understand that UK has a unique system of governance which is termed as uncodified constitution. Referring...

The term ‘Written Constitution’ is often, indeed, usually used somewhat misleadingly. Most of the constitutional rules of the United Kingdom are already written down in statutory form. It is not as if there is some court of elders gathering around a campfire making constitutional rulings...