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Arguments for and against codifying the UK constitution
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Arguments for and against codifying the UK constitution Abbas Ameli The UK constitution is currently one of very few uncodified constitutions that exist in today's political world and is praised by its admirers for being evolutionary rather than revolutionary and criticised by its critics for laying too much power in the hands of the few and lagging behind its democratic counterparts. In recent years, arguments have been presented both to challenge and to defend the current status of the UK's constitution. The ever growing power held by the executive has led to increased worries over the incapability of UK's uncodified constitution to maintain a check on the powers exercised by the executive. Far from parliamentary sovereignty and even what critics suggested as party sovereignty (due to great Labour majorities in recent years), it can be argued that sovereignty has been lying in the hands of the executive in recent years mainly as a result...
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