Does the UK have a Constitution?

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Résumé

There is a myth that England has no Constitution or at least no written one. Neither of these statements is accurate. The Constitution of the United Kingdom is an area of uncodified law, consisting of both written and unwritten sources. Thus, English constitutional law does exist and much of it is in written form. The fact is most countries have a single written formal document known as a Constitution which is a set of rules regulating the powers of its government and the rights and duties of its citizens. Very often, the nation's constitution can be found in a single document and are “entrenched”, that is to say that it can be amended only by a special procedure. The exceptions are Israel, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

In the classical sense, a constitution is a body of constitutional norms, both legal and non-legal, and must be sufficiently normative. These norms must impose obligations with which people ought to comply. But many of the UK's constitutional rules are descriptive rather than normative. They do not specify what people must do, but only what they do. However, this does not mean that Britain lacks constitutional rules. It is not possible to conceive a state without a constitution and we can think the UK's one is wider and more empirical than the other democratic countries' ones. Thus, Britain does have certain important constitutional documents and constitutional law can be found in a variety of sources ...

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