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What is the argument for and against a written constitution for the UK? "Killing all blue eyed babies" the Gentlemen of England would never do. But they could do…
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What is the argument for and against a written constitution for the UK? "Killing all blue eyed babies" the Gentlemen of England would never do. But they could do... Almost every essay on the issue of Britain's constitution cannot avoid dealing with a definition of the word constitution. Sometimes the very definition of the word constitution takes up the most of intellectual space as it depends on that what the further argument may be. In fact linguistically "constitution" simply renders the image of having a physical shape or in which state of health/mind etc. one might be. A democracy may have a "constitution" as well as a dictatorship. Yes in fact even an anarchy one could say has a constitution. What does a written constitution contain? Anthony King states that a constitution is the whole set of the "most important" rules of a polity. In the following it will become clear...
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