The author traces this to the UK’s uncodified constitution which relies heavily on informal conventions and self-restraint on the part of those in authority.

What we have instead is an uncodified constitution composed of piecemeal legislation along with unwritten rules and conventions that have questionable legal force.

It is said the UK has an unwritten constitution, although it’s perhaps more accurate to say that it has an uncodified constitution.

Long before Johnson became PM, we were aware that the UK constitution is an unusual beast: a centuries-old amalgam of precedent, convention and rules scattered across numerous texts, laws and ...

The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been the basis of American politics ever since. Britain, by contrast, is one of only a handful of nations that has an uncodified constitution.

"There is a fundamental question this [Brexit] is posing to the UK, about whether its uncodified constitution was doing the job they thought it was," said Catherine Haddon, a senior fellow at the ...

The UK government on Wednesday announced plans to axe 92 House of Lords seats retained for hereditary lawmakers, resurrecting reform of the unelected chamber started under Tony Blair's Labour ...

There is a conviction among the UK’s governing elites that its uncodified constitution and the statecraft used to rule its territorial politics are part of the natural order of things, and ...

The UK also has an uncodified constitution, where Acts of Parliament form part of the constitution. While Parliament is a bicameral system, the Lords have little meaningful power.

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