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What is a written constitution? A written constitution is a formal document that defines the nature of constitutional agreements; theses include rules that govern the political system and the rights of citizens and governments in a codified form. The UK's constitution is unwritten as it hails from no single written document, but derives from a number of sources that can be said to be written and part unwritten, examples of this include conventions, works of authority, Acts of Parliament, EU law and common law. In many countries, for example, the USA, the legislature is limited by the Constitution in the laws it can or cannot make. The U.S. Supreme Court can declare laws passed by the legislature to be unconstitutional and therefore invalid. The traditional view in the UK is that Parliament is not subject to any legal limitation and that the UK courts have no power to declare laws duly...

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