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Conventions as a source of constitutional rules have been widely acknowledged.
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PUBLIC LAW COURSEWORK Conventions as a source of constitutional rules have been widely acknowledge, not only in Britain where it is unusual to find no single document outlining the constitution, but also in developed countries and States where they do have a written constitution. An explanation of this can be found in 'Constitutional Reform' by R. Brazier. Here he says: 'In the US, for instance, a Law student could read the constitution in less than half an hour, but he would then have to immerse himself in law reports to see what fuller meaning had been given to it by the Supreme Court, and he would have to take account of a number of non-legal glosses which have been set upon the Constitution, primarily by convention'. Therefore regardless of whether a country possesses a written or an unwritten constitution, constitutional conventions play an important role in regulating constitutional relationships among different branches...
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