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What impact has Europe had on the process of Constitutional reform in the UK?
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What impact has Europe had on the process of Constitutional reform in the UK? Constitutional reform in the UK has been affected by their membership of the EU since 1979, it has included such aspects as Tutelary law, Referendums and other peripheral issues have been influenced by it also including such things as Multi-partyism, Freedom of information and Electoral reform. Referendums, before 1975, were only minor in the UK, meaning that the government had never had to rely on direct democracy. However Harold Wilson's government in 1975 proposed the people with the question of staying in the EEC, although referendums have become a regular feature of British political life since, it was instigated by the European question, an effect the EU has had on the British constitution and on constitutional reform. Referendums may appear to be a relatively small constitutional reform its effects have been far reaching, from the original use...
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