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Britain has no written constitution or comprehensive Bill of Rights, and is found partly in conventions and customs and partly in statutes.
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Student number: 0117697 Unit name: Constitutional and Administrative Law Unit Teacher: Richard Ryder Britain has no written constitution or comprehensive Bill of Rights, and is found partly in conventions and customs and partly in statutes. Conventions are rules and practices which are not legally enforceable but are regarded as indispensable to the working government; many which are derived from the historical events through which the British government has evolved. McEldowney implies that the constitution is a living dynamic organism, which reflects the moral and political values of the people it governs. The British constitution is one of the oldest in incessant continuation and is often regarded as prescriptive or unofficial because it lacks written substance. 'The British constitution has not been made but has grown...the building has been constantly added to, patched and partly reconstructed...it has never been razed to the ground and rebuilt on new foundations.' Since the British constitution is unwritten there is no one single...
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