Analysing the British Political System

... Politics B - L.O.1 Analysing the British Political System There has been debate over whether or not Britain actually has a constitution, as such. When one thinks of a constitution, it tends to be the American style model of 'the' constitution that springs to mind - a single written code, setting out rules and guidelines of how government institutions, and the relationship between such institutions and the citizens, should be conducted. However, despite Britain not having such an easily definable constitution, one exists nonetheless, in the form of uncodified (that it, not strictly written in a single document for that specific purpose) documents that are scattered among different sources, of which there are six main sources comprising: statute law, law which is made by parliament; common law, law based on legal precedents, that is, made by judges on the basis that what is decided by one court of law must be followed by

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