Why the UK needs a "Fundamental" Constitution
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1Why the UK needs a "Fundamental" Constitution By Iqbal Khan "...the Constitution in England (or properly, the United Kingdom) does not exist, since Parliament can always amend whatever arrangements are in place." (Alexis de Tocquivelle, Democracy in America) Contrary to Tocquivelle's enciphered view point stated above, the literal meaning of which is that the UK does not have a constitution, I partially adhere to the notion of scholars such as Lord Scarman, that the UK does have a constitution but it is hidden and difficult to find.1 What this basically means is that there is no single document, or a codified document, that contains all the required information for a document to be labelled as the "Constitution of the United Kingdom". At the same time the sources for the required data that needs to be incorporated in a written constitution are either hidden or scattered and hence difficult to find. However, the issue...

