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...
At present, although the British constitution contains written sources such as statutes, it is not codified into one document. In Britain, we do not have a written constitution, but instead a collection of laws and customs which govern our political system. This essay will outline...
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...