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A written constitution in Britain?


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A written constitution in Britain?

... A There are many advantages of adopting a written constitution in Britain, and there are many pressure groups, political figures and ordinary people who believe that Britain should have one. Our unwritten constitution is old fashioned, and there is not even an agreement about what it actually contains as it is made up of various conventions, statute laws and ancient documents. Constitutions are supposed to be the fundamental social compacts by which authority and order are maintained, and so a British written constitution would not only provide a rigid means of protecting the people from the power of the executive, but prevent the power of the Government from being too centralised, which is presently a major criticism of the Government. Even when she was Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher agreed that the Government power was too centralised, and needed some sort of restraint. A written constitution would set out the relationship between

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